Wheat Straw Daisy's flowering time is concentrated between July and September each year, usually in the fall. If you grow wheat straw daisy in the south, its flowering period may also be earlier. After the flowering period of wheat straw daisy, it is necessary to bear fruit. The fruits ripen from September to October every year. When the fruit ripens, it produces seeds that can be used for seed propagation.

Wheat Straw Daisy Flowering

Wheat Straw Daisy is an annual herbaceous flower in the sunflower genus of the Asteraceae family. The most important feature of this flower is that the petals feel like wax paper, brittle and dry, unlike the moisturized petals of ordinary flowers. The dried petals of straw chrysanthemum are golden yellow in color, bright and long-lasting, which means "sun" and "gold" in ancient Greek. Because the flowers do not fade after drying, like wax, it is a good material for making dried flowers, which is a unique natural "handicraft" in nature. When chrysanthemum plant blooms, there will be flower heads at the top of the main branch or lateral branch, and the diameter of the corolla is about 3~6cm. grass chrysanthemum has multilayered involucre, the outer layer is oval and membranous. It is dry and shiny and looks like flower petals. The petals, which are often thought to be the petals of the straw daisy, are white, pink, orange, red and yellow. The true flower of the straw daisy, on the other hand, is a tubular flower, located in the center of the disk. It is yellow in color. One of the characteristics of straw daisy blooms is that the flowers of straw daisy will open on sunny days and close on rainy days and at night. After the flowering period, the straw daisy enters the fruiting period. Straw daisies produce small fruits, which are small, rod-shaped, straight or curved, and have four ribs. The seeds are very small, usually only 1,000 seeds weighing 0.85 grams.

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