Please does anyone recognise this beautiful orange flower?
Seen at Hanbury Botanical garden in Italy on 1st March.
https://www.google.com/search?...

The leaves and blooms remind me of Osteospermum but that's only a wild guess because it's been many years since I've grown Osteospermum.

Edited to add: I guess the name has been changed from Osteospermum ecklonis to Dimorphotheca ecklonis.

Dimorphotheca sinuata Cape Marigold?

Arctotis?

Do any of those translate to African Daisy?

crawgarden said: Dimorphotheca sinuata Cape Marigold?

Many thanks for your suggestion.
My app Plantnet suggests this....however all pics on www show the centre as having black in it.
No sign of black in mystery flower.
I find Asteraceae id so hard.
https://www.google.com/search?...

plantladylin said: The leaves and blooms remind me of Osteospermum but that's only a wild guess because it's been many years since I've grown Osteospermum.

Edited to add: I guess the name has been changed from Osteospermum ecklonis to Dimorphotheca ecklonis.

Many thanks for your suggestion.
This is another with dark centres.
https://www.google.com/search?...

janinilulu said: Arctotis?

Again many thanks for your suggestion.
This is another with black in centre of the flower.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Lucy68 said: Do any of those translate to African Daisy?

Thank you.
Yes Osteospermum is the African daisy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The flower resembles this online photos of Arctotheca calendula but I don't know if the leaves are a match:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
https://live.staticflickr.com/...

plantladylin said: The flower resembles this online photos of Arctotheca calendula but I don't know if the leaves are a match:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
https://live.staticflickr.com/...

All suggestions welcome.
Thank you.

Quote www..."Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula) has elongated deeply lobed (i.e. lyrate-pinnatisect) leaves with green upper surfaces and whitish hairy undersides. Its flower-heads are relatively large (2-6 cm across) with dark purplish or black centres and 'petals' (i.e. ray florets) 10-25 mm long."


Sadly leaves look more like a dandelion.
The calyx is not a match either.
https://www.google.com/search?...
https://www.google.com/search?...

List of plants in bloom: Thinking probably Ericaceae
Arctotis hybrida
https://giardinihanbury.com/si...

https://giardinihanbury.com/si...

crawgarden said: List of plants in bloom: Thinking probably Ericaceae
Arctotis hybrida
https://giardinihanbury.com/si...

https://giardinihanbury.com/si...

Well done finding that list.
I will work my way through it...and report back later.
Thank you!

By the way all daisies are in Asteraceae.
Quote www.....
"Asteraceae is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales."