Florist's Cineraria
Pericallis cv.
(per-ee-KAL-liss)
The flowers on this plant are
fairly amazing. This one was received as a gift and has been blooming for
several weeks. You can see the older flowers in the background as they get kind
of a wine color. The newer flowers are much more red like the one in the
center. It is very tender (USDA Zone 11) and is consider a tropical. I am not
sure what to do with it once it stops flowering other than shear it off and try
and start all over again although my feeling is that it is an annual. They like
cool, moist conditions out of the way of drafts. Overwatering and some insects
are the main root cause for not having success.
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