Scientific name: Tagetes erecta Linn
English: Marigold
Tagalog: Amarillo
A rather coarse, erect, glabrous branched, rank-smelling annual herb, 0.4 to 1 m high. Leaves: 4 to 11 cm long, very deeply pinnatifid, the lobe lanceolate, coarsely and sharply toothed, 1 to 2.5 cm long. Flowers: heads solitary, long-peduncled, the peduncle thickened upward, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long, 2 to 4 cm in diameter, the involucre green. Ray flowers 1-seriate, female, the ligule entire or 2-toothed, short or long; disk flowers, perfect, regular, tubular limb usually somewhat enlarged, 5-fid, flowers pale to deep yellow. Fruits: achenes, linear, narrowed below, compressed or angled, 6 to 7 mm long.
Distribution
Ornamental cultivation throughout most of Philippines,
Spontaneous and naturalized in some localities.
Flowering all year.
Ornamental cultivation throughout most of Philippines,
Spontaneous and naturalized in some localities.
Flowering all year.
Parts utilized
Flower.
Collect from October to January.
Sun-dry.
Flower.
Collect from October to January.
Sun-dry.
Properties
Tonic, emmenagogue, disperses contusions.
Tonic, emmenagogue, disperses contusions.
Uses:
Anemia,Irregular menstruation, abdominal pain during menstrual period, Rheumatic muscular and bone pain.
Anemia,Irregular menstruation, abdominal pain during menstrual period, Rheumatic muscular and bone pain.
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