Matilda Smith del. · John Nugent Fitch lith. · Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd · L. Reeve & Co., London
This week's poster · Week of 5 October 2026
Canary marguerite
Part 6 of 6 in Daisies, primulas and the odd ones out
Argyranthemum foeniculaceum (published as Chrysanthemum foeniculaceum)
The fennel-leaved marguerite of Tenerife: white daisies over a haze of blue-grey, feathery foliage.
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- Published
- Plate 8644, volume 142, 1916
- From
- Curtis's Botanical Magazine
- Drawn by
- Matilda Smith
- Lithograph
- John Nugent Fitch
- Technique
- Hand-coloured lithograph
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Native to
- Tenerife, Canary Islands
About the plant
The plate is lettered Chrysanthemum foeniculaceum, but the plant is now placed in Argyranthemum, the genus of marguerite daisies found only on the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Salvage Islands. This species is endemic to Tenerife, where it grows on cliffs and rocky slopes in the north of the island.
Foeniculaceum means 'fennel-like', and the finely divided, glaucous blue-grey leaves are its signature: a soft haze from which the white, yellow-eyed daisies rise on slender stalks for months on end. In a frost-free climate it flowers almost all year, and it is one of the parents of the many marguerites sold as patio and container plants.
It was named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in Berlin in the early nineteenth century and moved to Argyranthemum in 1844. Plate 8644 appeared in 1916, early in the Magazine's 142nd volume.
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