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The Woolly caputia (Caputia tomentosa) belongs to Asteraceae (the Aster family). It is an evergreen shrublet that is distributed in the Cape Province of South Africa. It grows in rocky gravel in arid and semi-arid areas and grows 30-50 cm tall. The roots are fleshy. The stem is decumbent and spreading, and roots emerge from the nodes. The leaves are subcylindrical with short, pointed, upturned tips and densely covered with silvery-white, felt-like wooly hairs. From early summer to fall, the long peduncles produce yellow to orange-yellow flower heads. The flower heads are tubular flowers only, without ray florets. The fruit is a capsule, and the seeds have white pappus. It used to be considered a member of the Senecio genus. In horticulture, it is called "Gin-getsu" (silver moon) in Japan.
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