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Tagetes Erecta Marigold flower in a Garden in West Bengal India #244816437
Description
It is a herbaceous annual or perennial whose height ranges from 30ââ¬â110 cm. The root is cylindrical, pivoting, with a fibrous and shallow branching system. The stem is striated, sometimes ridged, smooth or slightly with villi, cylindrical, oval and herbaceous to slightly woody, with resin channels in the bark, which are aromatic when squeezed. Opposite leaves at the bottom alternate at the top, up to 20 cm long, pinnate, composed of 11 to 17 leaflets, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, up to 5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, acute to acuminate, serrated to sub-holders, the lower ones of each leaf frequently setiform in the form of threads, the superiors are sometimes completely setiform; with abundant round glands.