Chrysanthemum varieties

Chrysanthemum is China's top ten flowers of the third, but also one of the flower species of the four gentlemen, and is also one of the world's four major cut flowers, the production is very high. In China's ancient times there are a lot of poems about chrysanthemum description, it can be seen, chrysanthemum from a very early favorite. Chrysanthemums have become a very valuable ornamental flower after a long time of selection and cultivation, and the varieties are more and more with the cultivation time.

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum is a perennial herb, 60-150 cm high. Stem erect, branched or unbranched, pilose. Leaves alternate, shortly stalked, leaf blade ovate to lanceolate, 5-15 centimeters long, pinnately lobed or semilobed, base cuneate, white pubescent below, margin coarsely serrate or y cleft, base cuneate, stalked. Heads solitary or several clustered at apices of stem branches, 2.5-20 cm in diam. Involucral bracts multilayered, outer layer green, striate, margin membranous, outside pilose; ligulate flowers white, red, purple, or yellow. Flower color is red, yellow, white, orange, purple, pink, dark red and other colors, cultivated varieties are very many, the head of the inflorescences more varied, different colors, shape depending on the variety of single, flat, spatulate, etc., among the tubular flowers, often all specialization into a variety of ligulate flowers; flowering period September-November. Stamens, pistils and fruits are mostly rudimentary.

Chinese name: Chrysanthemum

Latin name: Dendranthema morifolium (Ramat.) Tzvel.

Alias: Shoukou, Jinying, Huanghua, Autumn Chrysanthemum, Tao Chrysanthemum, Nissei, Nihua, Yenian, Cryptomeria

Kingdom: Botany

Phylum: Angiosperms

Class: Dicotyledonaceae

Subclass. Subclass: Compositae

Organism: Orchidaceae

Family: Asteraceae

Subfamily: Tubuliflora

Tribe: Spring yellow chrysanthemum tribe

Genus: Chrysanthemum