Description of gerbera

Gerbera introduction from South Africa and Tropical Asia. These plants include perennial or annual crops. Gerbera plants grow and produce tillers and flowered continuously throughout the year from families who have older puppies interchangeably. 

 
Gerbera plant root system is spread in all directions at a depth of 30-75 cm, depending on plant age, soil fertility and plant growth itself As for rods, Gerbera plants have a very short stem, so that seems not to have a real trunk. At the end of the old plants will be out flower stalks during the 10 - 12.5 cm of leaf collection. Its leaves grow singly forming rosette, leaves gaps-strand gap is uneven and there are leaves on the surface of fine hairs. Gerbera leaves narrowed at the bottom and widening at the top, arranged a circular on the bottom of the rosette. 

These plants form flowers on the top or tip of the stem, long-stemmed and disc-shaped. Crown-shaped flowers neatly arranged collection of ribbons that form spheres. On each flower there is a flower. Gerbera petals have a very interesting, consisting of one or two layers of the inner shorter than the outside. Soft flower stalk. Flower color varies, among them: red, pink, white, yellow, beige and orange. 

Gerbera flower types can be distinguished by the structure of the strands of the crown, namely: a layer of flowering Gerbera, Gerbera Gerbera two layers and three layers. Gerbera flower layer (single-singgle) is a strand of flowers crown composed only of single layer and are generally colorless, such as: white, red or yellow only. Gerbera flower two layers (double) strand of the crown is composed of two layers of flowers and color variation is more than one kind. Gerbera flower three-layer (triple) is composed of three strands of the crown of flowers and color layers of more than two kinds.