Name: Calendula 'Porcupine Yellow' - Yellow Pot Marigold
Brand: Calendula
SKU: 57309108699509
Price: 5.9 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

Calendula officinalis 'Porcupine Yellow'

€5,90

Calendula officinalis 'Porcupine Yellow'

€5,90

Organic

Sustainable

Locally grown

🪴Standard: 9x9 cm pot

🚂 Ships across EU

🌱 Grown without pesticides or UV lamps

🌻 Double flowers🧑‍🍳 The flowers and leaves are edible - add them to a summer salad!
Used raw, it lends fragrance to cheeses, salads and even butter.

Flower Color: Orange, Yellow

Preferred Soil Type: Sandy, Well-drained

Sunlight: Full sun

Hardiness Zone: Zone 8: -12°C

Growth Habit: Upright

Origine: Europe

Calendula officinalis 'Porcupine Yellow' is glorious annual in the same family as the chrysanthemum, with incredible bright yellow porcupine flowers.

The flowers have distinctive, quilled double petals in a strong yellow, bringing both structure and colour as the season develops. A beautiful addition to a border or even a regularly watered garden box.

The flowers and leaves of calendula can be used as edible flowers in salads and other recipes, either fresh or dried, although some people find the peppery taste somewhat bitter.

🌱 It is primarily an annual unless you live in hardiness zones 9 to 11 (0 to -6), where it can be grown as a perennial.
👯‍♀️ It is a prolific self-seeder so worry not, frosty regions, she will return in another form
🌻 It is best to buy these plants before they bloom, that way the flowers are not damaged in the shipment and you can enjoy the full flowering season (so order between June and September!)

The family is composed of approximately 20 species (from the Canary Islands to Persia and from central Europe to the Mediterranean).

Hermaphrodite annuals, 60–90 cm, hardy or semi-hardy, with a few shrubby species suited to a cold greenhouse.

The leaves are alternate, elongated elliptical, with an acute apex and auriculate base.

The flowers are 3–5 cm, in solitary capitula with a flat receptacle; outer florets with hermaphrodite ligules, inner disc florets male and yellow. Its double petals are slightly pointed, small near the centre and gradually elongating towards the outside.

The fruit takes the form of an achene lacking a pappus, more or less curved and more or less spiny on the back.

The common name of pot marigold originated from the gold flowers that bloomed during the festivals of the Virgin Mary in Renaissance times (mary + gold = marigold).
It was used in the 18th century as a remedy for headache, jaundice and red eyes.

The petals create a rich yellow dye that is often used as a dye for fabrics, food, and cosmetics.

In Mexico, it is known as 'Herb of the Sun' and the flowers are commonly used to adorn the altars of deceased relatives during the Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations.

Recorded in gardens since the 12th century, Common Marigold possesses properties exploited across many fields.

It is first and foremost a dye plant, used as a pigment. It is also used in cosmetics, pharmacology and homoeopathy for its soothing, astringent, healing, anti-inflammatory and hepatic properties, among others.

Its nickname "False Saffron" comes from its culinary use: Marigold makes an excellent substitute for that spice, adding colour to rice dishes, stews, soups and herbal teas.