About Gerbera ambigua (Cass.) Sch.Bip.
Gerbera ambigua (Cass.) Sch.Bip. is an acaulescent, tufted perennial herb. It has a thickened woody rootstock and naked flowering scapes that reach up to 35 cm in height. Its leaves are very variable; they are usually petiolate, elliptical or oblanceolate, 5–8 cm long and 2.5–3.5 cm wide, thinly hairy on the upper surface and white- or yellow-felted on the lower surface. Its flower-heads (capitula) are 2–5 cm in diameter. The ray florets are white to yellow on the upper side, and pink to coppery reddish on the reverse. This species flowers from September to February. It grows in grassland and savanna across eastern South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, and tropical Southern Africa, including Zaire, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. It occurs at elevations between 1500 m and 2600 m above sea level, found on rocky slopes in woodland. It can tolerate the dry, cold winters and annual fires that are typical of its native region. It is pollinated by a wide range of flying insects, including beetles that feed on its pollen.
