Brachycome iberidifolia

BRACHYCOME iberidifolia
(BRACHYSCOME iberidifolia)
Swan River Daisy

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Type:
Annual

Height: 6" (15cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: Blue, purple, pink, white

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Asteridae (Daisy Superorder)

Order: Asterales (Daisy Order)

Family: Asteraceae (Daisy Family)

Genus: Brachycome (Swan River Daisy)

Species: iberidifolia (with leaves like those of Candytuft)

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Brachycome iberidifolia is an elegant little daisy useful for ground cover during the summer months. It has very finely divided foliage, and neat daisies in white, pinks, blues, mauves and purples, sometimes with a yellow and sometimes with a black centre.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Germination:
Summer
Inside (8 days)
Winter
Inside (7 days)

Seed Pod There is no seedpod. The seeds are tightly set together in a rounded ball with a few of
the old petals remaining round the edge.
Seed There are many small flat greyish seeds on the seedhead.
Seedling The seedling is small, with long, narrow seedleaves, and only slightly toothed
first true leaves.

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				Germination: Summer Inside (8 days) Winter Inside (7 days)
Seed Pod There is no seedpod. The seeds are tightly set together in a rounded ball with a few of the old petals remaining round the edge. Seed There are many small flat greyish seeds on the seedhead. Seedling The seedling is small, with long, narrow seedleaves, and only slightly toothed first true leaves.