Species · genus Senecio · Asteraceae

Canary Creeper

Senecio tamoides DC.

Also known as: Canary Ragwort · Climbing Cineraria

Growth habit

scrambling shrub

Native range

Cape Provinces, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Zimbabwe

Reference · S. tamoides

Cultivars of S. tamoides

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under S. tamoides yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Senecio tamoides is a scrambling shrub from southern Africa, where it climbs through other vegetation in bright, well-drained settings. Its succulent-leaved Senecio habit means it stores moisture and resents staying wet, so give it bright indirect light, a gritty, fast-draining mix, and water only when the top inch or two of soil has dried out. Let it approach dry between waterings and provide support for its scrambling stems.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 14 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

7–27 °C

Soil mix

Free-draining succulent mix with added grit

Propagation

Stem cuttings root easily in gritty mix

Fertilizing

Light feed monthly through spring and summer

Growth rate

Fast

Flowering

Showy sprays of bright yellow daisy flowers in autumn

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs

Senecio (ragwort / groundsel) — pyrrolizidine alkaloids; vomiting, lethargy. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ASPCA

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