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Gazania...... Treasure flower ......Peacock flower
A tropical herbaceous plant of the daisy family ....valued for their showy daisy flowers ,Any flowering plant of the genus Gazania, native to southern Africa. A member of aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia) The genus was first formally described by German botanist Joseph Gaertner in the second volume of his major work De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum in 1791.Gaertner named the genus after Theodore of Gaza, 1398–1478, translator of the botanical treatises of Theophrastus and Greek scholar