Re: Calendula common names

I'm sure I'm taking this thread into a slightly
different direction but let me add this...

In the seed industry, Tagetes erecta has long been
known as "African Marigold" but recently many breeders
have taken up the name "American Marigold" for this
species and its many strains.  Based on its actual
origin, I'd say the latter was more appropriate.  I'm
not sure where "African" ever came from.

Tagetes patula, the other common species of marigold
used for bedding in the U.S., is known as "French
Marigold".  I'm sure there's a story behind this as
well but I don't know it off the top of my head.

Joe


--- Julius & Beverly Elischer <elischer@iinet.net.au>
wrote:
> Yes, we always knew Calendula as "marigold"; I
> remember when my mother
> started growing the other kind - but as I recollect
> they were sold as
> "African marigolds"! (Anyone seen the film "Monsoon
> Wedding"? It is full
> of marigolds which appeared to me to be the
> Maxican(?) type - but they
> were constantly being eaten .. can these be eaten
> too?)
> 
> Beverly
> 
> Diane Whitehead wrote:
> >
> > We have always called it just "marigold", and I
> suspect, though I've
> > never seen it written anywhere, that that is what
> it was called in
> > Europe until Tagetes arrived from Mexico.
> -- 
> Julius and Beverly Elischer
> Nedlands, Western Australia
> Ph. +61 8 9386 5244
> 


=====
Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California --
where the weather is always perfect
and my garden always has something blooming
and birds galore

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