Red Gerbera
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Red Gerbera
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Gerbera is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was named in honour of the German botanist and naturalist Traugott Gerber (1743) who travelled extensively in Russia and was a friend of Carolus Linnaeus. It has approximately 30 species in the wild, extending to South America, Africa and tropical Asia.Gerbera is very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers.Gerbera is also important commercially. It is the fifth most used cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip). It is also used as a model organism in studying flower formation. Gerbera contains naturally occurring coumarin derivatives. Gerbera is a tender perennial plant. It is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds, but resistant to deer.
FEATURED 12/11/14 in "Beautiful Flowers"
FEATURED 12/11/14 in "Three A Day AAA Images"
FEATURED 1/24/18 in "Global Flowers"
FEATURED 7/5/21 in "Floral Photography & Art"
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July 16th, 2014
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Comments (7)
Jasna Dragun
Beautiful gerber! l/f
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you Jasna, and for the feature in Global Flowers on 1/24/18 :)