Pericallis lanata

This is a shrubby herbaceous plant. It produces very strongly coloured daisy flowers with separated rays coloured magenta. It has a dark maroon heart and a whiter area round the base of the petals. They flower from late summer. They are fragrant with the scent of violets. These zappy flowers are borne above the foliage mat of broadly three-lobed leaves. They look like stubby fat maple leaves and are coloured greeny white. They are tomentose on their under surface. This is too tender to winter outside except in the warmest parts of the country.