Commercial Floriculture

Large flowered types

1. Incurved regular – The outer ray florets curve upwards and inwards towards the disc florets to forma globular shape.

   Ex: Snow ball, Sonar Bangla, Chandrama.
2. Incurve irregular – The outer ray florets incurve loosely and irregularly and do not from a ball as in case of regular.
3. Refluxed – The outer ray florets curved outwards and downward away from the centre so that only their upper surface is seen.

   Ex: Cresta, City Beauty, Golden Rule, Day dream, Peach blossom, Sweet Heart.
4. Intermediate – The inner florets incurved and outer florets are refluxed, they are intermediate in shape to incurved and refluxed.

   Ex: John Reid, Lady Hope town.
5. Spider – The outer ray florets are large, elongated, tubular and curved to form a hook or coil like structure at the tip of the petals.

   Ex: Rupasi Bangla, Mahatma Ganthi.
6. Quill – The outer ray florets are elongated, straight and tubular like a quill with tips open but not flattened.
7. Exhibition - The outer florets are refluxed and inner florets incurred, the ray florets are generally twisted, irregularly overlapped each other and looks attractive.
8. Ball type – Ray florets are straight and radiated in all directions to give a complete ball shape.

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