dahlia

As for the dahlia, it is named the perennial herb plant of the Compositae dahlia genus (Dahlia) generally. The Japanese name is.

Flower from the summer to the autumn; a big garland and colorful color of a flower and way of blooming are characteristics. It is cultivated as an ornamental flower.

I am originally from Mexico. The name of the "dahlia" (dahlia) is associated with Ann Dell dozen (Anders Dahl) that was a pupil of Linnaeus with a Swedish botanist.

It was brought to (Tenpo era 13 years) in Japan in 1842 by a Dutchman. Because the form of the flower resembled a button, I was called (a calico peony).

The bulb is non-cold resistance, and it is the tuberous root which resembled a sweet potato, but there is not the ability to produce an adventitious bud in tuberous root in itself. Therefore I add the bud of the underground stem which the tuberous root produces to a tuberous root and separate it and increase it. The property of such a tuberous root resembles of the same Compositae. It was assumed that I am once toxic, but, as for this, it is a mistake, and in late years the trial to do a tuberous root if edible is done.

A Mexican national flower. The flower language "is splendid", and "is elegant"; "dignity" "caprice" "instability" "thanks" "prosperity."

In Japan, it is a town flower of Nishimachi, Koorigawa, Higashiokitama, Yamagata. There is the Kawanishi dahlia garden that a dahlia of 650 kinds of 50,000 blooms on the site of 4ha in the town.
The dahlia took Spanish, long time from Mexico in the 18th century, and selective breeding was performed, and various colors of a flower, kinds of have been created. The U.S.A. dahlia fashionable society classifies of the dahlia in 16.

The dahlias such as a red / orange / yellow / white / pink / light purple / button color / purple line up with a rose and a tulip, and it is the plant which was rich in the variety of the light blue most. There is the thing of two colors of coming out that the color of the color (a small ligulate flower around a tubular flower) is different from a petal (a big ligulate flower) in so that diaphragm and Colla let of a thing of a white claw bloom. There are words called blue dalkua for English, but there are not blue and the green light blue.