Three Gerbera
by Barbara McMahon
Title
Three Gerbera
Artist
Barbara McMahon
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This oil painting of three Gerbera painted in a modern, impressionistic style is of one of my favourite flowers. Gerbera is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was named in honour of the German botanist and naturalist Traugott Gerber (1743) who travelled extensively in Russia. Gerbera species bear a large capitulum with striking, two-lipped ray florets in yellow, orange, white, pink or red colours. The capitulum, which has the appearance of a single flower, is actually composed of hundreds of individual flowers. The morphology of the flowers varies depending on their position in the capitulum. The flower heads can be as small as 7 cm (Gerbera mini 'Harley') in diameter or up to 12 cm (Gerbera Golden Serena).Gerbera is very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers.Gerbera is also important commercially. It is the fifth most used cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip). It is also used as a model organism in studying flower formation. Gerbera contains naturally occurring coumarin derivatives. Gerbera is a tender perennial plant. It is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds, but resistant to deer.
Thank you for viewing. Barbara McMahon
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August 2nd, 2012
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Comments (32)
Marcia Weller-Wenbert
Love the vibrant colors in this as well as the subject of "gerbera flowers". The black background really makes the colors pop. v/f
Joseph Baril
Awesome painting, very vivid, bold, detailed, & colorful. Wonderful. V.
Barbara McMahon replied:
Thank you so much Joseph for your awesome generous comment! Very much appreciated!
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