imbricatum

Updated: May 1, 2025

It has a cultivated variety, called grandiflorum, which is esteemed for its brilliancy and long succession of golden bloom. This variety has larger flower-heads, surrounded with a fuller border of ray-florets. The species belongs to a genus many species of which have produced double varieties. One of them is the Japanese marigold, others are the carinatum and the imbricatum species.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation