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:

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.

Seed sowing and Germination
Summer: Seeds sown inside in summer germinated in 8 days.
Winter: Seeds sown inside in winter germinated in 7 days.

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	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.
Seed sowing and Germination Summer: Seeds sown inside in summer germinated in 8 days. Winter: Seeds sown inside in winter germinated in 7 days.