Red Gerbera 2 #2
by Steve Purnell
Title
Red Gerbera 2 #2
Artist
Steve Purnell
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A low key photograph of a beautiful red gerbera flower. The petals seem to reach out to meet you.
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. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J.D. Hooker in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton Daisy. Gerbera is also commonly known as the African Daisy.
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June 30th, 2016
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