PHENOTYPC CHARACTERIZATION OF CHRYSANTHEMUM CULTIVARS

Abstract

A pot experiment was conducted at Horticulture farm. Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka. Bangladesh from October 2012 to March 2013 to characterize chrysanthemum cultivars on the basis of phenotypic traits. This experiment had 32 chrysanthemum cultivars coded from V 1 to V 32 using Completely Randomized Design (CR1)) with three replications. These cultivars were categorized into 13 groups provided by National Chrysanthemum Society Classification, USA. The cultivar V7 (Yellow Glow) was the top scored cultivars for the studied phenotypic characteristics. The cultivars V 1 (Crimson Tide), V 2 (Samsan), V 3 (White Snowball). V 4 (Chandramukhi). V 10 (Sunny Yellow), V13 (Purple Mum), V16 (Pink Shasta Daisy) and V (Red Wing) were categorized as cut flowers and rest of the cultivars were categorized in pot or bedding flowers. All the 32 chrysanthemum cultivars were divided into a wide color range in accordance to Royal Horticultural Society (RI-IS) Color Chart. These findings will be helpful for commercial users as well as flower breeders.