Species Felicia diffusa
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Felicia:
Origin uncertain. La. felix = happy, cheerful, though in the neuter plural form felicia = happy things; possibly a reference to the bright flowers. Other sources vaguely refer to a mysterious German official in Regensburg called Felix who died in 1846 but speculatively and more probably for the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723–1789), an Italian scholar established in Yverdon who led the European team that wrote the Yverdon Encyclopedia, published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 quarto volumes. This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.
Etymology of diffusa:
From the Latin diffusus = ‘widespread’, 'spreading' or 'diffuse'
Scientific name:
Felicia diffusa (DC.) Grau
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Thinly hairy, soft-stemmed shrublet to 15 cm. Leaves oblong, the margins revolute. Flower heads radiate, solitary on slender peduncles, blue with yellow disc, ray florets without pappus. Oct. Shady upper slopes, NW, SW (Kamiesberg to Cedarberg Mts, and Franschhoek).
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