Care African Daisy, Gerbera

Common name: African Daisy, Gerbera.

Origin: South Africa

The Gerberas are ornamental plants belonging to the family of the sunflower.
Its beautiful flowers have long stems and bright colors, it is used as a cut flower.
It is cultivated in warm climate with an average temperature of 25 degrees.
It usually blooms from spring to summer, but with the right climate can flower all year round.

Care:
Light: it is preferable that it is in full sun so that flourish properly

Irrigation: must be below, through a plate, to avoid disturbing the flower buds that are glued to the floor.

Temperature: it is sensitive to the cold.

Multiplication of the Gerbera:

-For seeds

-by division of mata, leaving root and leaves, and returning them to planting with enough place to develop a new plant.

-Micropropagation

Pests: aphids, spider mites, mealybugs.
Types:
-Of a flower: these daisies has a row of petals of non-overlapping with a Green Center
-Double or Duplex - these daisies has a double row for overlapping petals with a green or black Center.
-Double Crested - these double contain two rows for overlapping petals with one or more rows of shorter petals with a green or black Center.
-Double Crested full - These have multiple rows to superimpose solids of petals with a domestic row that decreases in size, covering the Center entirely.