Characteristics of cockscomb

Cockscomb, also known as old red, small-headed chicken crown, gets its name because the flowers are in the shape of a chicken crown. it has high ornamental value and medicinal value. what are the characteristics of the cockscomb?

What are the characteristics of cockscomb?

Celosia cristata is an annual erect herb of the genus Amaranthus of the family Caryophyllaceae, with a height of 30-80cm. The whole plant is glabrous, the stem is relatively stout, and the leaves grow with each other, showing a long oval shape. The flowers are like chicken crowns, there are white, purple, yellow, yellow-red and so on, among which purple is more common. The seeds of the knot are black kidney-shaped and glossy.

What are the varieties of cockscomb?

1. Common cockscomb

It is about 40 mi 60 cm tall, rarely branched, and the flowers are flattened and wrinkled much like a chicken crown. The colors of flowers are fuchsia, crimson, pink, yellowish or milky white, monochrome or complex.

There are generally two kinds of cultivated varieties. Tall chicken crown, plant height 80ml 120cm, flowers mostly purplish red; short chicken crown, plant height 15mur30cm, flowers mostly purplish red or dark red.

2. Hen crown

The plant is 30ml 50cm in height, much branched and oblique, and the whole plant is widely conical, compact and neat. The shape of the terminal inflorescence of the trunk is large, wrinkled and inverted conical, and there are many small inflorescences beside the base of the main inflorescence, the tip of each lateral branch is similar, the flower color is tangerine, the leaf color is dark green, and the earth is red.

3. Round velvet chicken crown

The height of the plant is 40ml / 60cm. The flowers are very dense and densely fluffy.

4. Chicken crown with chicken tail

Also known as Reed flower chicken crown or broom chicken crown, plant height 30-150 cm.

The stem is erect, the leaves are ovate-lanceolate, and the inflorescences are spikelike by many small inflorescences. Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, without stipules. Flowers bisexual, sparsely unisexual, axillary Cymes or arranged in panicles; bracts small, scarious, tepals 3-5, often scarious, stamens often as numerous as perianth segments and opposite.