African Daisy
Osteospermum sp. · Garden flowers
African daisy
Scotney Castle, 3 May 2026
Osteospermum, native to southern Africa and grown in British borders mainly for a trick the wild species doesn't have.
This is a "spoon" cultivar, bred so each ray petal narrows to a thin claw before opening into a broad tip, leaving gaps that give the flower a pinwheel outline instead of a solid disc. The blue centre is a ring of disc florets, each one a complete, separate flower in its own right; a daisy head is a cluster of hundreds of them, not one flower.
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