Mexican Marigold

What is the Mexican Marigold?

Family: Asteraceae

Scientific name: Tagetes erecta

Cempoalxochilt better known as the Cempasúchil flower of Nahuatl origin, means flower of twenty flowers, this flower is since pre-hispanic; the one that adorns altars, offering and burials to the dead. The Mexica considered it to be a flower similar to the sun.

The Cempasúchil is native of México and Central América, in México you can find it in Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Sinaloa,Campeche, Coahuila, CDMX, Oaxaca, Nayarit, Sonora, Durango etc.

Where is produced the Mexican Marigold?

How can mexican marigold help us?

Mexican marigold tea helps in the treatment of digestive problems such as diarrhea, stomach pain, calm vomiting, liver problems, and as well as problems in the respiratory tract.

Marigold flowers contain lutein, a substance that offers a whole lot of benefits to the human eye?

Day of the dead

The Day of the Dead in the indigenous vision implies the transitory return of the souls of the deceased, who return home, to the world of the living, to live with their families and to nourish themselves with the essence of the food that is offered to them on the altars placed in his honor.

Remezcla reports that the earliest written mention of cempasúchil dates back to the 16th century, in the Florentine Codex. The Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún described the Aztecs’ medicinal use of various flowers and plants, including the marigold’s use in a festival commemorating the dead.

Characteristics of the Mexican Marigold

-Cempasúchil is a herbaceous plant that grows annually or perennially, reaching a height of 60 cm to 1 meter.
-It is very smelly.
-Its root is tubular, pivoting, branched and fibrous, shallow.
-It has a striated, smooth or slightly woolly stem.
-Its leaves are deciduous, opposite in the lower zone, and alternate in the upper one.
-They get to measure 20 cm long, with a width of 5 cm to 1.5 cm.
-They have 11 to 17 leaflets.

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Edited:
Regina Romero García

Research:
Isabella Reyes Armenta

Did you know that:
María Lorenz Monárrez Salazar

How can Mexican Marigold help us?
Diego Zazueta Gutiérrez

Characteristics of the Mexican Marigold:
Mariann Paulette Bazán Gerardo, Abraham Félix Salazar

Day of the dead description:
Javier Alejandro Vidaña León

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The Mexican Marigold represents our traditions.

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