Marigold Flower Gifts

Tagetes are known almost universally in North America as marigold, or variously as Mexican marigolds, African marigolds or French marigolds. Depending on the species, marigold foliage has a musky, pungent scent, though some varieties have been bred to be scentless.


Marigold Gifts

"Marigold" is derived from "Mary's Gold", and the plant is associated with the Virgin Mary in Christian stories. Tagetes minuta or Mexican Marigold, a tall upright marigold plant with small flowers, is used as a culinary herb in Peru, Ecuador, and parts of Chile and Bolivia, where it is called by the Incan term huacatay.

 




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