50 Graines Rose d'Inde, Tagetes erecta mélange

India pink, tagetes erecta mix |

Rose d'Inda (Tagetes erecta) (sometimes confused with a close parent,India eye) is a species of herbaceous plants of the family of asteraceae.

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She is from Mexico. When mentioned when it is used in the celebrations of the day of the dead, it is sometimes designated in French -speaking texts under Mexican name Cempasúchil. This species, 50 to 100 high CM, is found in spontaneous state in Mexican states of San Luis Potosí, Chiapas, Mexico, Puebla, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala and Veracruz.

Its yellow or orange flower, the Cempasúchil, is also called Flor de Muertos (" The flower of the dead ") in Mexico, because it is Used since the time Pre -Columbian for the celebration of Day of the Dead. The term Cempasúchil (which can put on different spellings like Cempaxochitl or Zepaxuchitl) comes from Nahuatl Cempōhualxōchitl, which literally translates into " twenty flowers1 

The pre -Columbian civilizations have found many medicinal applications to this plant which is supposed to treat, among others, the abdominal pain, the parasites, the diarrhea, the evil in liver, the vomiting, theindigestion and the evil of Dent.

From the India Rose is extracted a food coloring, the zeaxanthine (e161H), a Pigment of the family of Xanthophylles used to color food2.

The plant away the Nématodes, it can be used in organic farming alternating between vegetable lines.

In Cambodia, where this plant is called " Sbai Reueng " (ស្ពៃ រឿង), young leaves are used as a vegetable or spice.

In the Caucase The spice based on Tagetes Erecta is known as " Safran D 'Imérethy .

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