How can you tell the difference between Persia chrysanthemum and Gesang flowers that look so much alike?

There are so many varieties of chrysanthemums in Wuhan Golden Autumn Chrysanthemum Exhibition in 2018, it is inevitable that there are some varieties with similar looks but different names. Persian chrysanthemum and Gesang flowers have to be said to look so alike that it is sometimes difficult to tell them apart.

What is Persian chrysanthemum?

Persian chrysanthemum is an annual herb with erect thin stems, many branches, smooth stems or puberulent hairs. Leaves opposite, ca. 10cm, bipinnatifid, lobes narrowly linear, entire toothless.

Inflorescences inserted on slender pedicels, terminal or axillary, flowering stems 5~8cm. The total coating film is 2 layers, and the inner edge is membranous. Ligulate flowers 1 round, petal tip is toothed, 8 petals, white, pink, crimson.

The tubular flowers occupy the Shenyang part of the disk and are all yellow. Achenes have rafters, seed lifespan is 3-4 years, 1000-grain weight is 6g. From summer to autumn, the seeds are in the shape of crescent moon.

Horticultural varieties include white-flowered Persian chrysanthemum, large-flowered Persian chrysanthemum and purple safflower Persian chrysanthemum. Horticultural varieties are divided into early flower type and late flower type, as well as single and double petal.

What is Gesang flower?

Gesang flower, also known as Gesang Meido, what kind of plant is widely controversial. In Tibetan, "Gesang" means "good time" or "happiness", and "Meiduo" means flower, so Gesang flower is also called Happiness Flower. For a long time, it has placed the Tibetan people's beautiful emotion of looking forward to happiness and auspiciousness.

According to the relevant literature research and interviews with key figures, it is indicated that the Persian chrysanthemum, which is regarded as Gesang flower in a large number of Tibetan films, songs and Xizang's periodicals and magazines, is not the real Gesang flower.

In a broad sense, "Gesang Meido" is probably synonymous with the most tenacious wild flowers on the plateau, while in terms of botanical characteristics, the plants of the genus Aster of Compositae and Cuiju, a common cultivated plant from Lhasa to Changdu, are in line with the characteristics of Gesang flowers.

The difference between the two

In Xizang, people often express and express their beautiful feelings through Gesang flowers, and there are many songs and stories praising Gesang flowers. Gesang flower has a high position in the hearts of the Tibetan people and is regarded by the Tibetan people as a holy flower symbolizing love and auspiciousness.

Several plants called Gesang flowers by people in Tibetan areas: Persian chrysanthemum, Cuiju, alpine rhododendron, Jinlumei and so on.

In other words, Persian chrysanthemum can be Gesang flower, but Gesang flower contains a variety of plants. People often express good wishes in their flowers, so this mulberry flower can be a chrysanthemum by the side of the road or Jin Lumei.

Gesang flower is a big category, and Persian chrysanthemum is only one of them. Do you understand the relationship between Persian chrysanthemum and Gesang flower now?