This flower has very large blooms and carries a highly auspicious meaning.

Marigold (Tagetes erecta) is an annual herbaceous plant of the genus Tagetes in the family Asteraceae, with an upright, stout stem bearing fine longitudinal ridges, and branches spreading upward. The leaves are pinnately divided; there are a few glands along the leaf margins. The flower heads are solitary; the involucre is cup-shaped with toothed tips; the ligulate flowers are yellow or dark orange; the tubular flowers have a yellow corolla. The achenes are linear, narrowed at the base, black or brown, covered with short fine hairs; the pappus has 1-2 long awns and 2-3 short, blunt scales. The flowering period is July-September. Native to Mexico. Distributed throughout China. It can grow in areas at elevations of 1150 m to 1480 m, mostly on roadside meadows.

Marigold

Ornamental use:

Marigold is a common landscaping flower; its blooms are large and the flowering period is long, and it is often used to accent flower beds and plazas, to arrange flower clusters and flower borders, and to cultivate flower hedges. Medium and dwarf varieties are suitable as materials for flower beds, flower paths and flower clusters, and can also be grown in pots; taller varieties can be used as background material or cut flowers.

Culinary use:

Marigold flowers can be eaten. They are a famous dish in floral cuisine. Wash fresh marigold petals, let them dry, then coat them in flour and deep-fry; the aroma is mouthwatering, and just like stinky tofu, it smells very pungent, but after deep-frying it is fragrant and also quite delicious.

Marigold

Environmental benefits:

Marigold plants have strong resistance to and absorption of gases such as hydrogen fluoride and sulfur dioxide, and can also attract nematodes in the soil.

Marigold

Medicinal use:

Root: bitter, cooling. Detoxifies and reduces swelling. Used for upper respiratory tract infections, whooping cough, bronchitis, keratitis, pharyngitis, stomatitis, toothache; externally for mumps, mastitis, and painful swollen sores. Leaf: sweet, cold. Used for carbuncles, sores, boils, and ding sores, and unnamed swellings and toxins. Flower head: bitter, cooling. Calms the liver and clears heat, dispels wind and resolves phlegm. Used for dizziness and blurred vision, head wind and eye pain, infantile convulsions, cold and cough, whooping cough, breast pain, and mumps.