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What are the special features of Cuiju?

Published: 2024-11-24 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/24, Cuiju, with bright colors, diverse flower shapes, numerous flowers and long flowering period, is an ornamental plant attached great importance to by the horticultural circles at home and abroad. Let's get to know it together, and maybe you will fall in love with it.

Families and genera of Cuiju

Cuiju, an herb, belongs to the genus Chrysanthemum of Compositae.

The alias of Cuiju

Cuiju, also known as annual Aster, also known as Jiangxila, July chrysanthemum, Gesang flower.

The origin of Cuiju

Produced in Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. Growing in hillside wasteland, hillside grass, water edge or sparse forest shade, 30m 2700m above sea level.

There are a wide range of cultivated and wild types in Japan and Korea, and botanical gardens in the Soviet Union and other European countries have been introduced as ornamental flowers.

Morphological characteristics of Cuiju

Herbs annual or biennial, ranging from about 30 to 100 cm in height. Stem erect, solitary, with white rough hairs, base 6 Mel 7 mm in diam.

Inflorescences capitate, solitary, 6mi 8cm in diam., bud hemispherical, flowers rich in color, red, light red, blue, yellow or lavender.

Achenes are long oval-shaped, oblanceolate, relatively flat and easy to fall off. The flowering and fruit period of green chrysanthemum is from May to October.

 
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