Importance and uses

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.
Last modified: Thursday, 7 June 2012, 11:12 PM