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Common name: Mexican sunflower, Tithonia, Lam numitlei (Manipuri)
Botanical name: Tithonia rotundiflora Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
This is a superb plant that deserves to be better known. In its native Mexico
it grows to 6 ft or more, but here it will only reach 2-4 ft. They form large,
compact plants and produce their single, dahlia-like flowers very freely.
The flowers are yellow to orange and about 3 inches in diameter. Grow the
plant in full sun, a light soil and fertilize it regularly.
Try it – your neighbours will want to know what it is.
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