Lagenophora

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Read about Lagenophora in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Lagenophora (flask-bearing, referring to the shape of the involucre;. Compositae. Small perennial scapose herbs, resembling Bellis, allied to Brachycome, sometimes planted. Scapes sometimes bearing lvs., slender, unbranched; heads solitary and small, with a short involucre having bracts in about 2 rows; receptacle convex and naked; rays in 1-3 rows, usually white, female and fertile; disk-florets perfect: fr. compressed, more or less beaked, the pappus wanting.—Species about 16, mostly in Austral, and New Zeal., but some in E. Asia and in extra-tropical S. Amer. They are probably adapted to outdoor cult. in parts of the S. L. Forsteri, DC., the "native daisy" of New Zeal., is described by Cheeseman as a small daisy-like herb, either tufted or with creeping and rooting stolons furnished with tufts of radical lvs. at the nodes: lvs. radical or cauline, the blade orbicular to obovate and 1 in. or less long, coarsely dentate or nearly lobed: scape 1-6 in. long, sometimes with 1-3 minute linear bracts; head 1/4- 1/2 in. diam., the rays white and revolute, numerous. Variable. G.C. III. 49:69. L. Billardieri, Cass., of India and Austral., has lvs. radical or nearly so, oblong or obovate, sinuate-toothed: scape slender, 3-4 in., from a rootstock with thick fibers: head 1/6 in. diam., with white short rays: variable in size of head. CH


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