Botanical name:Amberboa moschata 'The Bride'Family:Asteraceae (Sunflower family) Synonyms: Chryseis moschata, Amberboa odorata var. glauca
Sweet Sultan is a biennial herb 30-50 cm tall.
There are various garden cultivars with different color flowers, white,
pink, purple etc. Stem is solitary, branched or unbranched; stem and
branches sparsely cobwebby floccose. Leaves are hairless or sparsely
floccose. Lower stem leaves are stalked, spoon-shaped to elliptic, 6-7
× 1.5-2 cm, base narrowed, margin toothed, tip blunt to pointed.
Middle and upper stem leaves are shortly stalked, elliptic to narrowly
elliptic, lyrately pinnately divided. Uppermost leaves are stalkless or
almost so, margin toothed. Flowers rest on an ovoid involucre 1.2-2 cm
in diameter. Flower tube is white, 10-20-cleft, white hairy. Marginal
florets are much longer than inner ones. Achene are brown, cylindric,
about 5 mm, densely white villous. Sweet Sultan is native to the
West Asia, grown as a garden plant in India.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed in Delhi University Garden, Delhi.
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