This picture I clicked in Rourkela (my home town) in Odisa, in the month of feb 2010. The beautiful flower “Chrysanthemum” in the my own garden made me feel so very proud. Chrysanthemum comes from Greek ‘Chrys’ meaning golden (the color of the original flowers), and ‘anthemon’, meaning flower. The father of modern taxonomy & a Swedish naturalistis Carolus Linnaeus named this beautiful flower.

Chrysanthemums have dark green, deeply lobed and aromatic leaves with soft grey undersides. They come in a wide variety of flower shapes, sizes and colors, from dark burgundy, bronzes and oranges, to lavenders, light pastel pinks, yellows, and whites. The hundreds of cultivars of mums are classified by flower shape: pompons are double and ball shaped; reflexed are double with downward curving rays; spiders are double with long tubular, spreading rays; spoons are semidouble with spoon shaped rays; and there are several other shapes.