Commercial Floriculture

Small flowered types

Singles – The petals are arranged in one or not more than five rows with prominent central disc.
Anemones – Prominent centrally raised hemispherical cushiony disc florets surrounded by short rounded or flat or twisted or quilled ray florets.
Ex. Golden sands, White sands.
Korean single – Small flowers with a prominent central disc, ray florets are flat, number of whorls or ray florets are five and less than five.
Ex: Cardinal, Gul-e-Sahir, Chairman.
Korean double – The number of whorls of ray florets are more than five and the central disc is open.
Ex: Flirt, Man Bhawan.
Spoon – The outer ray florets are tubular with a spatula or spoon like opening at the tips.
Ex: Anokha.
Decorative – Fully double flowers with flat petals and central disc is generally absent or not seen, ray florets are longer.
Ex: Aretic, Elegance, Blue chip, Dolly.
Quilled – Small flowers, ray florets are tubular.
Ex: Golden crystal, Snow crystal.
Button – Very compact, small flowers, produce numerous flowers.
Ex: Golden dust.
Pompon – The flowers small, freely opened, compact, hemispherical or ball shape, the central disc is concealed or absent, florets neatly arranged.
Ex: Apsara, Jayanthi, Lameo, Dandy, Eve.

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