Plant Profile
Dimorphotheca Ecklonis
Common names: Blue-And-White Daisy Bush
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Sub Shrub
Up to 60 cm
Evergreen
Indigenous
None
Average water
Any Soil
Wind Resistant
Frost Resistant
Dimorphotheca ecklonis must be planted in full sun in order for the flowers to open to their full potential, although they will tolerate some shade during the day. They can be mass-planted as a groundcover, as a border to a shrubbery, or to line pathways.
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The leaves are alternately arranged, sessile, simple, elliptic and slightly succulent, and the margins are entire to conspicuously dentate, crowded at the ends of the branches. The lower branches are quite nude.
Flower
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Winter / Spring
White , Purple , Dark Purple , Purple Blue , Dark Blue , Mauve
For Vase , Wild
Unspecified
- Flower morphology
The large flowerheads (capitula) are up to 80 mm in diameter and borne singly or in a few groups at the end of the branches on short stalks (peduncles). The ray florets are long, bright white on the upper side and light blue or violet on the lower side. The disc florets are dark blue or purple.
NOTES
Dimorphotheca ecklonis was previously known as Osteospermum ecklonis but recent DNA studies have confirmed its place within Dimorphotheca.
Although this species is not currently included in the South African plant Red Data Lists of 2002, it should be considered as threatened as it has a small distribution area in the Eastern Cape where its habitat is threatened by cultivation, urbanisation and agriculture.
