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|familia=Asteraceae
|genus=Gynura
|common_name=Velvet plant
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ISBN 0881925381
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|image_caption=Gynura aurantiaca whith flowers and seeds
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'''''Gynura''''' is an Asian [[genus (biology)|genus]] of the [[botany|botanical]] [[family (biology)|family]] [[Asteraceae]]. [http://www.botany.com/gynura.html], subfamily [[Asteroideae]], tribe [[Senecioneae]].
The most known species is ''Gynura aurantiaca'', so called because of the color of its orange [[inflorescences]]. This plant is also commonly known as "Purple Passion" because of the velvety purple leaves.

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Gynura (name refers to the tailed stigmas). Compositae. Tropical herbs, sometimes grown under glass for the large showy foliage.

Rarely subshrubby: lvs. alternate, entire or lobed, numerous: heads discoid, the florets commonly all fertile, not very showy; involucre cylindrical or somewhat bell-shaped, the narrow bracts in about 1 series: achene narrow, 5-10-striate, with copious slender white pappus-bristles. The gynuras are attractive glasshouse herbs, usually requiring a moderately high temperature; prop, by cuttings. Genus allied to Senecio and Cineraria; of about 40 species in Trop. Afr., Asia, to Austral.
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