CALENDULA

Descriptors
Category: CHEMICAL
  1. ARACHIDIC ACID (ARACHIDIC) Arachidic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  2. BETACALENDIC ACID (BCALENDIC) Beta-calendic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  3. CALENDIC ACID (CALENDIC) Calendic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  4. LINOLEIC ACID (LINOLEIC) Linoleic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  5. LINOLENIC ACID (LINOLENIC) Linolenic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  6. OLEIC ACID (OLEIC) Oleic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  7. PALMITIC ACID (PALMITIC) Palmitic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  8. PALMITOLENIC ACID (PALMITOLEN) Palmitolenic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  9. SEED LIPIDS (SEEDLIPID) Total seed lipids as a proportion of seed dry weight (percentage scale from 0 to 100).
  10. STEARIC ACID (STEARIC) Stearic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
  11. VACCENIC ACID (VACCENIC) Vaccenic acid as a proportion of total seed lipid content (percentage from 0 to 100).
Category: COMMENT
  1. RECOMMENDED USE (RECUSE) Recommended use.
Category: DISEASE
  1. ASTER YELLOWS (ASTERYEL) Resistance to aster yellows phytoplasma. Proportion of asymptomatic plants when grown under open field conditions (percentage from 0 to 100). 1 measure per row. 100 = resistant
Category: GROWTH
  1. GROWTH HABIT (GRWHABIT) Predominant growth habit/form of plant.
  2. PLANT HEIGHT (PLTHGT) Mean height of plants measured in cm, recorded at time of seasonal maximal height.
  3. PLANT WIDTH (PLTWDTH) Mean width of plants measured in cm, recorded at time of seasonal maximal height.
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. ANTHER COLOR PATTERN (ANTHERCOL) Anther color pattern.
  2. CAPITULUM DEPTH (CAPITDEPTH) Mean depth of fully expanded primary capitula to peduncle measured in mm.
  3. CAPITULUM DIAMETER (CAPITDIAM) Mean diameter of fully expanded primary capitula (excluding rays or spread phyllaries) measured in mm from above.
  4. CUT STEM LENGTH (CTSTLENGTH) Mean length of full, primary capitulum branch to first subtending branch in cm.
  5. DISK FLOWER COLOR (DFLWCOL) Color of disk flowers (Referenced to RHS color values).
  6. FLOWER HEAD DIAMETER (FLOWERDIAM) Mean diameter of fully expanded primary capitula (including rays) measured in mm.
  7. DEGREE OF FLOWERING (FLOWPER) Percentage of plants flowering.
  8. PEDUNCLE LENGTH (PEDLENGTH) Mean length of peduncles to fully expanded primary capitula, measured to first subtending leaf in cm.
  9. RAY LENGTH (RAYLENGTH) Mean ray length in mm.
  10. RAY NUMBER MAXIMUM (RAYNUMMAX) Maximum number of ray flowers per flower head (estimated for values over 30). Taken from flower with the most rays.
  11. RAY NUMBER MINIMUM (RAYNUMMIN) Minimum number of ray flowers per flower head (estimated for values over 30). Taken from flower with the fewest rays.
  12. RAY SHAPE (RAYSHAPE) Shape measured at anthesis at a time of day when rays are fully expanded (reported as frequencies).
  13. RAY WIDTH (RAYWIDTH) Mean ray width in mm.
  14. RAY FLOWER COLOR (RFLWCOL) Color of ray flowers (Referenced to RHS color values).
  15. RAY FLOWER PURPLE TIP (RFLWPT) Presence of purple apex on ligules.
Category: OTHER
  1. IMAGE/PICTURE1 (IMAGE_01) Image.
  2. IMAGE/PICTURE2 (IMAGE_02) Image.
Category: PHENOLOGY
  1. DAYS TO FIRST FLOWERING (FIRSTFLOW1) Days to first flowering measured in days after transplanting to field.
  2. DATE OF FIRST FLOWERING (FIRSTFLOW2) Date of first flowering.
  3. DAYS TO PEAK FLOWERING (PEAKFLOW1) Days to peak planting measured in days after transplanting to field.
  4. DATE OF PEAK FLOWERING (PEAKFLOW2) Date of peak flowering.
Category: PRODUCTION
  1. SEED MATURITY AND QUALITY (DETERMIN) Relative degree of synchrony in seed maturity and seed retention at harvest.
  2. DEGREE OF SEED RETENTION (SEEDRET) Relative degree of seed retention at seed maturity, where 1 = poor retention and 9 = excellent retention.
Category: QUALITY
  1. BLOOM QUALITY (BLOOMQUAL) Quality of bloom where 1 = low qualtity and 9 = high quality
  2. FLOWER PROFUSION (FLOWERPROF) Profusion of flowers measured at peak flowering.
  3. LODGING (LODGE) Visual rating of plants leaning/lodging due to wind, excessive growth, etc.