Gerbera ambigua flowerhead

The solitary flowerheads of Gerbera ambigua grow on naked scapes of about 35 cm long with no bracts present. Each flowerhead bears a whorl of spreading ray florets that are white or yellow on the insides of their strap-shaped outer lips, pink, red-purple or copper on the outsides of these lips. The head is from 3 cm to 5 cm wide. There are several rows of narrow involucral bracts around the base of each head, grey-green and hairy with pointed tips. The disc florets are almost white.

Flowering happens mostly in spring and summer but sometimes throughout the year, more after fire. The pappuses are white (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; Gledhill, 1981; iNaturalist).