Talk:Calendula

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"They are actually a native to southern Europe, but they are hardy in our climate as well." ... Who are we? Americans? British? Do we live in Alaska or Arizona? The sentence does not make sense when the world is your audience. --195.24.26.30 10:13, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, it is nonsense; removed it. - MPF 16:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Same with "It is also the flower of the month October." Worldwide? Who decided this? I have never heard of this (but that may not mean anything). More likely this is another americanism.195.128.250.140 23:01, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

"The leaves of this plant are 5-18 cm long" The words this plant suggest they only apply to C. officinalis, not to all species belonging to this genus. In that case, the text does not belong here. Does anyone know more about the general properties? TeunSpaans 06:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Another aspect of this article which i doubt concerns the area where the flowers are indigenous. The german article lists the area from macaronesia to Iran, this sounds much more probable to me than the meditteranean - central america hypothesis. TeunSpaans 06:46, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

According to the concise brittanica, marigold = "any plant of the genus Tagetes of the family Asteraceae, consisting of about 30 species of annual herbs native to southwestern North America, tropical America, and South America. The name marigold also refers to the pot marigold (genus Calendula) and unrelated plants of several families". It seems to me this article started out as an article on Tagetes, and ended up as an article abour Calendula, and no-one ever bothered about checking the contents. TeunSpaans 08:42, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I changed the area to the area listed in the German wiki. I must leave it to someone else to describe the general characteristics of this genus. TeunSpaans 08:54, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
The leaf size does cover at least the selection of species for which I have descriptions available (they are all fairly similar, and the others probably do not differ much); I've re-worded it to remove the circumlocution 'of this plant'. The concise brittanica is wrong in that Calendula is the true marigold; Tagetes is a much later "imposter", but your supposition that some Tagetes details had been added to the article (when it was earlier titled 'Marigold') is correct. I've restored a link to the Mediterranean region, as that is where the bulk of the species occur, but correct, Central America shouldn't have been there. - MPF 15:17, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

The text says "genus Calendula" but the box on the right says "Calendua". Is that a typo? Karora 00:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks. JoJan 13:57, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tagetes is not the "true marigold".

The article states, "Calendula should not be confused with the true marigolds (Tagetes species, see marigold)." I object to the notion that Tagetes is the "true marigold". Tagetes is a native of the Americas. It cannot have acquired the English name "marigold" before the 16th century. Calendula has been known as "marigold" in Britain since mediaeval times. Calendula is therefore the original bearer of the name, which was presumably later passed on to Tagetes because of its similar appearance, as happened with many other species. I suspect the article was written by an American, to whom Tagetes would have appeared as the original species and Calendula as a later import.Brumel (talk) 08:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)