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Products > Chrysocephalum apiculatum 'Silver and Gold'
 
Chrysocephalum apiculatum 'Silver and Gold' - Silver and Gold Everlasting
   
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Habit and Cultural Information
Category: Perennial
Family: Asteraceae (Sunflowers)
Origin: Australia (Australasia)
Evergreen: Yes
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloomtime: Year-round
Synonyms: [Helichrysum apiculatum]
Height: 1 foot
Width: 2-3 feet
Exposure: Full Sun
Summer Dry: Yes
Deer Tolerant: Yes
Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs
Winter Hardiness: 25-30° F
Chrysanthemoides incana (Vaalbietou) - A fast growing low sprawling evergreen groundcover that grows to 12 to 18 inches tall by 10 feet or more wide with fine wooly gray 1 to 2 inch long ovate and spatulate leaves that contrast well with the yellow daisy flowers that are produced on and off through the year.

Plant in full sun to light shade in a well-drained soil where it can be watered fairly regularly to infrequently. Tolerates coastal wind and salt. It is considered to be fairly hardy but has not been tested by any very cold winters since we have started growing it - it should be cold hardy to at least 25° F. This plant should prove to be a nice low maintenance sprawling groundcover that can be easily pruned to maintain shape and size as well as promote new growth. An excellent plant for difficult seafront gardens and unlike its bigger cousin, Chrysanthemoides monilifera, which has become a serious weed in Australia, this plant does not reseed to become a weed.

Chrysanthemoides incana comes from the Western Cape of South Africa. This low growing clone was selected by Dr Ernst van Jaarsveld in the 1970s from Chapmans Peak along the Cape Peninsula and was long grown by him at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and he shared it with many others. The name for the genus is a compound word with the name of the genus Chrysanthemum (meaning yellow flower) with the added suffix 'oides' meaning "like" in reference to it resembling a Chrysanthemum. It differs however from this genus, and all other plants in the daisy family (Asteraceae), by having fleshy fruits. The specific epithet is the Latin word for "gray". Another common name is Gray Tick Berry but we have never seen this fleshy berry on this selection.

We have grown this great plant since 2016 and our planting of it between our sales and accounting office generates some of the most asked about identification questions as the plant regularly grows over the sign with its name on it. Our plants came to us initially from Gregory Pongetti at the California State University Fullerton Arboretum where we first became enamored with it spilling down the hillside near the entry to the garden when visiting this garden with the Salvia Sumit group in 2013. 

This information about Chrysocephalum apiculatum 'Silver and Gold' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.

 
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