칠석정

칠석정

Kleinia fulgens

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senecio fulgens

senecio fulgens는 http://www.nature.go.kr/kpni/index.do에서 검색되지 않습니다.

Senecio (금방망이속)는 총31건이 검색되나 국명 칠석정은 없다.

 

Origin and Habitat: Senecio fulgens (Kleinia fulgens) is endemic to KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Habitat and ecology: This species grows in valley on cliff ledges and cracks. on the cliffs of its natural habitat the shiny blue-grey leaves and stems tend to stand out and again the plants can be seen from a fair way away. The fleshy stems tend to grow out over the cliff and hang down, then grow back up towards the light. The Autumn flowering time from May through to June that will stretch to July as you move further inland is the most obvious time to find this species on the cliffs. The bright red flowers attract many butterflies and other insects that pollinate them. The plant has a creeping, tuberous rootstock and in habitat the aerial parts are often browsed by animals.

ENGLISH: Brilliant flovered Kleinia, Coral senecio
AFRIKAANS (Afrikaans): Koraalsenecio

Description: Senecio fulgens, best known as Kleinia fulgens, is a quite a nice looking herbaceous perennial subshrubs up to 60 cm tall with a profusion of reddish flowers. The bright orange red flower heads resemble a thistle. Succulent leaves seem to be spirally arranged and stems emerge from a tuberous succulent, shapeless rootstock. Plants are everywhere covered with a pale green glaucous bloom and are hairless throughout.
Derivation of specific name: The species name, fulgens, means shining and refers to the vibrant, scarlet colour of the flowers.
Branches: Few, about 1 cm thick, evergreen, rather soft, fleshy, weak, 60(-90) long ascending or sprawling, glaucous green, covered in leaf-scars.
Leaves: Crowded in terminal rosetes, 9(-15) long, 3-5(-7) cm wide, obovate to oblanceolate, narrowing downwards to winged base, and varied outline from entire to pinnatifid with prominent triangular pointed teeth in the upper half. Leaf colour varies from dull green-grey to bluish-grey with purpling on the underside and margins.
Inflorescence: Flower stalk, thick, sparingly-forked ending the shoots, 10-30 cm or more cm long. Capitula (flower-heads) few, 2-2.5(-3) cm across when fully open, nodding but later erect. Phyllaries (involucral bracts) 7-10 very unequal in width, membrane-edged, up to 2 cm long. Ray florets none. Disc florets 30 to 60, rich orange-red, scarlet or cerise. Pappus 10-12 mm long.
Chromosome number: 2n = 20.