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What are the types of chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemum is China's top ten flowers of the third, but also one of the flower species of the four gentlemen, and 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 are varied, different colors, shape depending on the species and have a single, flat, spatulate, and other types, among the tubular flowers, often all specialization into various types of ligulate flowers; flowering period September-November. Stamens, pistils and fruits are mostly rudimentary.

Chinese name: Chrysanthemum

Latin scientific name: Dendranthema morifolium (Ramat.) Tzvel.

Alias. Shouke, Jinying, Huanghua, Autumn Chrysanthemum, Taoju, Nissei, Nihua, Yannian, Cryptomeria

Kingdom: Botany

Plantae: Angiosperms

Organism: Dicotyledons

Organism.

Subclass: Subclass Compositae

Organism: Order Erythrina

Family: Asteraceae

Subfamily: Subfamily Tubuliflora

Family: Subfamily Tubuliflora

Tribe: Tubuliflora

These are the most common species in the world. Group: Spring Yellow Chrysanthemum

Genus: Chrysanthemum

Species: Chrysanthemum

Synonym: Chrysanthemum morifolium

Named by and dated from: Ramat. 1792.

English name: Florists Dendranthema