Commercial Floriculture

Introduction

• Dahlia is one of the most important garden plants.
• Its wide spectrum of colours, variation in size (< 2.5 cm to 40 cm diameter), attractive shapes, many forms, profusion of flowering easy cultivation have made them immense popularity.
• It was Abbe Cavanilles gave the name Dahlia in 1791.
• They grow in size from one to five feet. And flowers range from small pompons to several inches diameter.
• Flowers include single bloom and double bloom.
• These attractive plants produce loads of brilliant blooms in rainbows of orange, salmon, bronze, apricot, yellow, crimson, scarlet and lavender.