Coronations can be cut stubble or harvested at one time.

One harvest for better benefits.

Coronation, also known as artemisia, chrysanthemum cabbage, artemisia, with artemisia, is a plant of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae.

Coronation, smooth glabrous or a few smooth glabrous. Stem up to 70 centimeters high, unbranched or branched from the upper middle. Basal leaves withered at flowering. Middle and lower stem leaves long elliptic or long elliptic-obovate, 8 to 10 centimeters long, sessile, bipinnately divided. One is parted or nearly divided, with 4 to 10 pairs of lateral lobes. The second division is lobed, cleft or y lobed, the lobes ovate or linear. Upper leaves small. Heads solitary at the top of the stem or few at the tips of the stem branches, but not forming conspicuous corymbs, pedicels 15 to 20 cm long. Involucre 1.5 to 3 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts 4-layered, inner layer 1 cm long, apically membranous enlarged into appendages. Ligule 1.5 to 2.5 cm long. Ligule-flowered achenes have 3 raised narrowly winged ribs with 1 to 2 conspicuous intercostals between the ribs. Tubular-flowered achenes have 1 to 2 elliptic raised ribs, and inconspicuous intercostals. Flowering and fruiting from June to August.

Coronation is a shallow-rooted vegetable with roots distributed in the green layer of the soil. Stem round, green, with artemisia flavor. Leaves are oblong, sinusoidal or y lobed, with thick leaf flesh. Heads, flowers yellow, achenes, brown. The seeds used in cultivation, called achenes in botanical terms, are angular, with an average thousand-seed weight of 1.85 grams.

Growing environment

Coronation prefer cool, do not tolerate high temperatures, the growth temperature of 20 ℃ or so, 12 ℃ below the slow growth, 29 ℃ above the growth of poor. Chrysanthemum coronarium in about 5 degrees will be frozen, it has a certain degree of cold resistance, but cold resistance is not strong, when the temperature is lower than 10 degrees, Chrysanthemum coronarium growth is slow, poor growth, the lowest can tolerate the growth of about 8 degrees of temperature, when the temperature drops again, Chrysanthemum coronarium will appear traces of frostbite, and even will freeze to death.

Coronation is not strict on light requirements, generally to the weaker light is good. Is a long sunshine vegetables, in the long sunshine conditions, nutritional growth can not be fully developed, and soon into the reproductive growth and flowering and seed. Therefore, it is appropriate to arrange in the cultivation of shorter sunshine in the spring and fall seasons. Fertilizer and water conditions are not strict, but not waterlogged is preferred.

Distribution

Ornamental cultivation of gardens throughout China. Hebei, Shandong and other places have wild.

Main value

Coronation contains protein, fat, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, serine, aspartic acid, threonine, alanine and so on.

Coronation stems and leaves can be eaten together, with artemisia's clear air, chrysanthemum's sweet aroma, fresh, tender and crisp. The content of carotene exceeds that of general vegetables, 1.5 to 30 times the content of cucumber and eggplant.?

Can be used as flower bed flowers.