Raoulia rubra Buchanan is a plant in the Asteraceae family, order Asterales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Raoulia rubra Buchanan

Raoulia rubra Buchanan

Raoulia rubra Buchanan is a low, whitish cushion plant with scattered tiny red flowers, that resembles a lichen superficially.

Family
Genus
Raoulia
Order
Asterales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Raoulia rubra Buchanan

Scientific name: Raoulia rubra Buchanan. This plant forms whitish cushions that can reach 60 cm (24 inches) across, but are only 25 mm thick. Superficially, this growth form looks like a lichen. The tiny, scattered flowers it produces are red.

Photo: (c) Leon Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Leon Perrie · cc-by

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Asterales Asteraceae Raoulia

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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