Dahlia x hortensis Guill.
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| Family: | ASTERACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Dahlia | ||||
| Synonym: | Not available | ||||
| Common Name: | Not available | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | April-June | ||||
| Distribution: | Native of Europe | ||||
| Habitat: | Grown as garden plant | ||||
| Uses: | Ornamental garden plant | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Annual herb to 2 m; branchlets hollow. Leaves opposite, simple, oblong, chartaceous, to 16 x 8 cm, base obtuse, margin dentate, apex acute; petiole to 2 cm. Capitula a few, in a compact axillary corymb. Outer phyllaries leafy, oblong; inner ones narrower, brown. Capitula fully double, globose, to 15 cm wide, with no disk, and with twisted ray florets of various colours. | ||||