🌼 Marigold

• Common Name: Rose of Indies
• Family: Compositae
• Origin: Mexico
• Botanical Name:
  • African - Tagetes erecta: 2n = 24
  • French - Tageges patula: 2n = 48

• Optimum temperature: 18-30 °C
• Marigold is a herbaceous plant.
• Seed rate: 1 - 1.5 kg/hac.
• Seedling become ready for planting - one month after sowing.
• Pinching of rainy crop is beneficial to avoid water logging.
• Marigold is not used in Gajra. (Generally Jashmin flowers are used)

• S.P.S. Raghava is associated with Marigold.
• Protandary type of self-incompatibility is found in marigold.
• Male sterility in African marigold is due to female character.
• Genetic male sterility (GMS) is very common in marigold.

African varieties

• Cracker jack
• Climax
• Golden Age
• Crown of Gold
• Chrysanthamum charm
• Star gold
• Pusa Narangi Genda
• Pusa Basanti Genda: an open pollinated variety of marigold.
• Nugget - triploid variety of marigold.

French varieties

• Rusty red
• Butter scotch
• Valencia