Senecio tamoides

Senecio tamoides or also known as Canary creeper (a name it shares with Senecio deltoideus Less.[3]) is a climbing member of the genus Senecio of the family Asteraceae.[4]

Senecio tamoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Senecio
Species:
S. tamoides
Binomial name
Senecio tamoides
DC. (1838)[1][2]

In Australia, Senecio tamoides has been misapplied and is usually considered to be Senecio angulatus.[5]

Description

Scrambling[6] mostly evergreen[7] perennial,[6] creeping along the ground or climbing several meters into the trees.[4]

Stems and leaves

Stems are slender and hairless, up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall.[6]

Leaves are bright green, shaped like many ivy[7] with broad, oval and fleshy surfaces, 4 centimetres (1.6 in) long and 7 centimetres (2.8 in) wide, coarsely toothed edges, leaf stalks 2 centimetres (0.79 in) to 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long.[6]

Flowers

Inflorescence is many-headed,[6] bright yellow,[7] and the flowering spike grows to have a flat top. The flower heads are cylindrical, about 3 millimetres (0.12 in) in diameter; surrounded with a whorl of five to seven bracts, 6 millimetres (0.24 in) to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long which are surrounded by two to four smaller bracts or bracteoles. Three to six ray florets; each ligule approximately 1 centimetre (0.39 in) long; ten to twelve disc florets, 12 millimetres (0.47 in) to 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long.[6]

When cultivated in the gardens of the National Museums of Kenya, it has orange florets.[8]

Fruits and reproduction

Achenes about 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long, and not hairy; pappus 6 millimetres (0.24 in) to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long.[6] It grows easily from stem cuttings.[7]

Distribution

It is native to southern Africa where it occurs from the Eastern Cape to eastern Zimbabwe.[9] It grows along evergreen forest margins at altitudes of 300 metres (980 ft) to 1,900 metres (6,200 ft)[4] and in moist gullies.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Senecio tamoides". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  2. Landcare Research. "Senecio angulatus L.f. Suppl. 369 (1781)". Flora of New Zealand: Taxa. Landcare Research Allan Herbarium and New Zealand Plant Names Database. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
  3. Hyde, Mark; Bart Wursten. "Senecio deltoideus Less". Flora of Zimbabwe. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  4. Hyde, Mark; Bart Wursten. "Senecio tamoides DC". Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  5. Western Australian Herbarium (2007-09-11). "Senecio angulatus L.f." FloraBase. Government of Western Australia. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
  6. National Herbarium of New South Wales. "PlantNET Senecio tamoides DC". New South Wales FloraOnline. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  7. Pienaar, Kristo (2003). "Climbers". Gardening with Indigenous Plants: Easy to Grow Southern African Plants. Struik. pp. 96 pages. ISBN 1-86872-392-5. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  8. Aluka. "Entry for SENECIO tamoides DC. [family COMPOSITAE]". African Plants. Ithaka Harbors, Inc. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  9. Viljoen, Cheris. "Senecio tamoides DC". PlantZAfrica.com. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
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