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Vernonia amygdalina

The flower buds of Vernonia adoensis, captured against a clear blue sky with a few wispy clouds, with the buds exhibiting their distinct spiky white florets surrounded by green sepals."

Asteraceae

General

Fact sheet about Vernonia amygdalina

Herbaceous or soft-wooded shrub. Leaves broadly lanceolate to oblong-elliptic; margins strongly undulate and serrate with sharp teeth. Capitula solitary along the branches. Florets mostly tubular, white, sometimes tinged with mauve. Found in miombo woodland and wooded grassland, often near streams.

vernonia adoensis