Coronation Chrysanthemum is also known as the same as Artemisia, Artemisia pontica, Artemisia chrysanthemi, Artemisia pond, Artemisia rods, Artemisia, Peng Hua Cai, Tung Hua Cai (in Fujian and other places are also called Goose Vegetable, Yi Vegetable), for the Order of the Orchidaceae, Family of Asteraceae, Coronation Chrysanthemum genus of annual or biennial herbaceous plants, leaves alternate, oblong pinnatifid division, flowers yellow or white, and the wild chrysanthemums are very much like.

In ancient China, Chrysanthemum coronarium for the court delicacies, so also known as the emperor dish. Chrysanthemum coronarium has the clear air of artemisia, chrysanthemum sweet fragrance. According to the ancient Chinese medicine book: Chrysanthemum coronarium taste sweet, pungent, flat, non-toxic, have "peace of mind gas, nourish the spleen and stomach, eliminate phlegm and drink, and benefit the stomach and intestines," the efficacy. Garden ornamental cultivation throughout China. Hebei, Shandong, Hebei Shijiazhuang and other places in the wild.

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Coronation Morphological Characteristics:

1, Stem and Leaves

Smooth glabrous or a few smooth glabrous. Stem up to 70 cm high, unbranched or branched from the middle and upper part. Basal leaves withered at anthesis. Middle and lower stem leaves long elliptic or long elliptic-obovate, 8-10 cm long, sessile, bipinnately divided. One is parted or several times divided, with 4-10 pairs of lateral lobes. The second division is lobed, cleft or y lobed, the lobes ovate or linear. Upper leaves small.

2, flowers

Heads solitary at the top of the stem or a few at the tips of the stem branches, but not forming a conspicuous corymb, pedicels 15-20 cm long. Involucre 1.5-3 cm in diameter, involucral bracts 4-layered, inner layer 1 cm long, apically membranous enlarged into appendages. Ligule 1.5-2.5 cm long.

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