The Sky under the mysterious Beauty-- Blue Eye Chrysanthemum

Blue-eyed chrysanthemum is a genus of the family Erigeron breviscapus of Compositae. The blue-eyed chrysanthemum originally belongs to the genus Heterocarpa, from which only one-year-old species are still in the genus, while perennial ones are included in the genus. Blue-eyed chrysanthemum is a close relative of drupe chrysanthemum. The scientific name of blue-eyed chrysanthemum comes from the Greek word for "bone" and the Latin word for "seed". Also known as African daisies, South African daisies, Cape daisies and blue-eyed daisies. There are about 50 species of blue-eyed chrysanthemum, all of which are native to Africa, 35 of which are in southern Africa and Arabia. They are semi-hardy plants, so wild blue-eyed chrysanthemums cannot withstand winter.

Blue-eyed chrysanthemum

The plant is 20 cm~50cm tall, erect or creeping, typical basket-shaped inflorescence, with a round disk in the middle, surrounded by radiating ligulate flowers, sometimes spoon-shaped, and the middle disk shows different colors, such as blue, yellow, purple and so on. Tongue-shaped flowers have white, milky white, yellow, pink, purple, purple and other colors, sometimes showing different colors on both sides. Flowering can last from February to July, or even into autumn if the climate is right.

Blue-eyed chrysanthemum

It has the characteristics of different flower patterns, colorful flowers, compact and short plant type, florescence lasting for several months and so on. Therefore, as soon as it is discovered, it has attracted the attention of people in the garden circles in Europe and the United States and quickly applied to the garden. Blue-eyed chrysanthemum has been widely used as potted and ground-grown flowers in Europe, the United States and other countries, and many European countries have carried out large-scale commercial production. At the same time, many new varieties were bred through interspecific and intervariety hybridization.

Blue-eyed chrysanthemum

Since 2006, a new kind of flower "blue-eyed chrysanthemum" began to be used in the garden and quickly became popular, and became a new favorite in the flower market. Blue-eyed chrysanthemum belongs to the genus Compositae, such as Cape daisies, South African daisies, African daisies, blue-eyed daisies, etc. some domestic companies have translated this kind of flowers into African marigold, obviously this kind of plant does not belong to the genus marigold; some companies literally translate into African daisies according to their English names, but this kind of plants do not belong to daisies. Some companies in Taiwan are translated as "blue-eyed chrysanthemum". In terms of name, it is not easily confused with plants of other genera of Compositae, and also reflects some of its morphological characteristics, so we think that blue-eyed chrysanthemum is a more suitable name for this kind of flowers. During my stay in Europe, I used this kind of flowers and plants as research materials, so I had the opportunity to learn about these flowers from many aspects.