Commercial Floriculture

Importance and uses

• In India too, chrysanthemum occupies a place of pride both as a commercial crop and as a popular exhibition flower.
• It has a wide range of type, size and colour and also ‘forms’.
• Short day plant – ‘Photo sensitive’ (10 hours day light)
• The erect and tall growing cultivars are suitable for background planting in borders or for cut flowers.
• The cultivars with the dwarf and compact growing habit, on the other hand, are suitable for front row plantation or pot culture.
• The decorative and fluffy bloomed small-flowered cultivars are ideal for garland making and hair decoration.
• The extra large-bloomed cultivars for their exhibition value.
• Tall growing type suitable for background planting in borders.
• Dwarf growing for flower beds and pot culture (pot mums)
• Loose flowers – garland, veni, worship etc.
• Long stem flowers – cut flowers for Bouquet, Vase etc.
• Chrysanthemum morifolium is also an important source of essential oil and sesquiterpenoid alcohol.
• The species like Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium and C. coccineum are also being cultivated as sources of pyrethrum and an important insecticide.
• Chrysanthemums are the most popular cut flower sold in the United States.
• The chrysanthemum is one of the most beautiful and perhaps the oldest flowering plants, commercially grown in different parts of the world.
• It is important both as cut flower and as potted plant in the international market.
• In Dutch cut flower auction, chrysanthemum ranks 2nd after rose.

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