Scientific name Kalimeris Rank Genus | Higher classification Daisy family | |
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Lower classifications Kalimeris indica, Kalimeris pinnatifida Similar Farfugium japonicum, Chwinamul, Fuki, Cat's ear, Tanacetum | ||
Kalimeris garden plants
Kalimeris (or the Kalimeris Asters) is a genus of plants in the sunflower family.
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It was first described in 1825 by the French botanist Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781-1832).
This genus occurs mainly in eastern Asia (China, Korea and Japan), but is also naturalised on Hawaii.
They can grow to a height of 1-1.5 m. The foliage is herbaceous. The blue-green leaves vary per species and are smooth textured. They can be long and narrow, round with large teeth or lobed. The flower heads are solitary or in leafy flat-topped inflorescences. The disc florets are yellow, the ray florets are white, pink or purple.
The chromosome base number is x = 9. The genus's closest relatives are found in the Asian members of Aster and Heteropappus.
Autumn blues physostegia viginiana kalimeris incisa
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