Saturday, July 13, 2019

GERBERA flower

Flowers are part of seed plants that function as reproductive organs that have four main parts, namely sepal (leaf petals), petal (crown leaves), pistil (pistil), and stamen (stamen) (Anonim, 1994).

Types of cut flowers of the Compositae family, for example: daisies, chrysanthemums, dahlia, garbera, etc. The type of cut flower of the rosaceae family is rose. The type of cut flower of the caryophylliaceae family is carnation. The types of cut flowers of the liliaceae family are lilies and asparagus. The type of cut flower of the amarillidaceae family is narcissistic and tasty at night. The type of cut flower of the irridaceae family is gladiolus. The type of cut flower araceae family is anthurium is anthurium. The type of cut flower family orchidaceae is an orchid plant (Santoso, 2009).

Gerbera is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (asteraceae). People call it Hebras or Gebras. Gerbera was taken from the name Traugott Gerber, a German doctor who was a friend of Carolus Linnaeus.

The species name Gerbera jamesonii (Barberton daisy) is taken from the name of a plant collector named Robert Jameson who discovered this plant in the Transvaal province, South Africa.

In the wild there are more than 40 species of herbs that spread from South America, Africa, Madagascar to the tropics of Asia. The scientific article on Gerbera plants was first written by J.D. Hooker in 1889 in the Curtis Botanical Magazine journal called the Gerbera jamesonii species from South Africa as Transvaal daisy or Barberton daisy.

Red flower with yellow humps

Gerbera is very popular and is widely used as decorative garden plants or as cut flowers. Gerbera began to be cultivated in the late 19th century in England by Richard Lynch, a curator at the Cambridge Botanical Gardens, England.

The crossing of two species originating from South Africa Gerbera jamesonii and Gerbera viridifolia produced Gerbera hybrida. Most of the Herbra cultivars traded today are the result of crosses from the descendants of two species of Gerbera jamesonii and Gerbera viridifolia.

They vary greatly in shape and size.

Herbs consist of around 2,000 cultivars with flowers that have various shapes and sizes between 5-12 cm in diameter. From the diversity of flower forms, especially the flower structure of the flower, there are four types of gerbera that have been cultivated in Indonesia, namely:

© Gerbera has a flowery layer: the flower crowns are arranged in layers and are generally red, yellow and pink.

© Gerbera has two layers of flower: the strands of the crown are arranged in a variety of more than one layer of the outer crown, which is very different in appearance. Examples of two-layer flowering are the red Double Gerbera jamensonii Fantasy Fantasy.

© Gerbera has three layers of flowers: an example of this type of flower is Gerbera jamensonii Fantasy Triple Red which has the dominant red flower, then varies yellow or yellowish green.

© Types of gerbera produced by Holand Asia Flori Net in the Netherlands, with a larger size than the three types above. The varieties planted are Gerbera yustika (pink red), Orange Jaffa (bright orange), Ventury (dark orange).

Gerbera has various colors such as white, yellow, orange, red and pink. The flower center is sometimes black. Often the same flower can have different color petals.

Gerbera is a type of plant in the form of shrubs (herbs) that flower continuously throughout the year (perennial), by producing saplings from old clumps. Has a fiber root type. The leaves are rosette shaped with uneven slits and covered with feathers. The stalks are long and each stalk only has 1 flower. Similar flower collections of ribbon collections are neatly arranged rounded with colors varying red, pink, yellow, white, beige and orange

Herbaceous flowers have a large capitulum which is the base of 2 layers of crown leaves (called floret ray) with long, colorful shapes, orange, yellow, pink, red, white, pink salmon, and purple.

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