Aren't Marigolds and Margaritas the same flower?

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Manolo

Hi Fearn, I see what you mean :-)


I also googled up some of the ones with the same variagation in the petals but I havent seen one with all the element somcined yet, ie the varigated petals, numbering 8 and the parge centre.

Be very interested to see yours.
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Gene

Are they? I thought Margaritas were Sunflowers? :confused:

Hi All,

Here's the deal. All the flowers (sunflowers, margaritas, marigolds) are in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Sunflowers are in the genus Helianthemum. Marigolds are in the genus Tagetes. Margaritas (actually marguerite, aka the ox eye daisy) are genus Leucanthemum.

Thing to remember is that the sunflower family (Asteraceae) has on order 23,000 species worldwide. It's an easy group to get confused about, so don't worry if you are confused right now. So far as the picture on the sword being a marigold, I rate that as probable, and I'll get a picture up later.

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F

I've got an ugly picture of the marigold (or whatever it is), showing a flower with 8 "petals" (ray florets). Oddly, on this plant, the ones with eight petals aren't in good shape for the most part. Don't know why that might be. Still, this is what I'm talking about.

Note above: Actually, sunflowers are genus Helianthus, not Helianthemum, which is another genus that I worked with. My bad.

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F

Ah, yes I see it :-)
I've found a similar on on my googling but single colour petals.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c5...tia/flower.jpg

Now I see the difference! Except for their estambre , Margaritas are white.