Senecio tamoides


Senecio tamoides or also known as Canary creeper is a climbing member of the genus Senecio of the family Asteraceae.
In Australia, Senecio tamoides has been misapplied and is usually considered to be Senecio angulatus.

Description

Scrambling
mostly evergreen
perennial,
creeping along the ground or climbing several meters into the trees.

Stems and leaves

Stems are slender and hairless, up to tall.
Leaves are bright green, shaped like many ivy with broad, oval and fleshy surfaces, long and wide, coarsely toothed edges, leaf stalks to long.

Flowers

Inflorescence is many-headed, bright yellow, and the flowering spike grows to have a flat top. The flower heads are cylindrical, about in diameter; surrounded with a whorl of five to seven bracts, to long which are surrounded by two to four smaller bracts or bracteoles. Three to six ray florets; each ligule approximately long; ten to twelve disc florets, to long.
When cultivated in the gardens of the National Museums of Kenya, it has orange florets.

Fruits and reproduction

about long, and not hairy; pappus to long.
It grows easily from stem cuttings.

Distribution

It is native to southern Africa where it occurs from the Eastern Cape to eastern Zimbabwe. It grows along evergreen forest margins at altitudes of to and in moist gullies.