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Common Name:
Daisy/ The horse orchid/ Marguerite/ Crown Daisy

General description of this plant:
Daisy is a flower, which has several white petals surrounding orange flower heart. It is a kind of compositae plants, perennial herbaceous plants with height of around 10 cm. Normally, it has various categories, such as Habanera Series, Pomponette Series, Roggli Series and Tasso Series. Daisy originates is from Europe. Its flowering periord is in the spring, and it prefers living in light areas with great resistance to cold climate. The ideal temperature for Daisy' seed germination is around 22 to 28 centigrade degrees, and the suitable temperature for reproducing is around 20 to 25 centigrate degrees. Meanwhile, there are numerous propagation methods used for reproducing Daisy, such as division of suckers, cuttage, grafting and seedings. Pest damage is one of biggest threats to Daisy' life, and the most common pests are sawyer chrysanthemum, cotton aphid and cutworm. These pests usually cause multiple diseases among Daisy like leaf blight, damping off in seedling stage and mould. Furthermore, there are three main values of Dairy, for instance, it can be applied to medicine field with high brass and stannum content as well as used in ornamental and horticulture field. Besides, Daisy belongs to Italy's national flower, and miscellaneous meanings of its flowers contribute to this plant's great cultures.

Most interesting thing(s) about this plant:
The most interesting thing toward Daisy is that Daisy can be used for divining the love and marriage. Daisy is generally used for divining the love in western countries. For instance, people can try to peel Daisy's first petal by saying //love me// and then peel another petal by saying //dont love me// until the last one to figure out what the lover's feeling is. The another interesting way of using Daisy is for divning marriage. People firstly have to randomly pick up a bunch of flowers, and then find out how many daisy flowers are inside. The number of daisy flowers among these different kinds of flowers you pick up stands for the remaining years to your marriage.

A story about me and this plant:
Heidi was orginally my middle school classmate. After graduating from middle school, we had not contacted with each other for a long time. We met each other again after three years when I participated in the classmate reunion. After that, we came to contact with each other more frequently, and we often hung out together and watched movies together. As time past by, I came to realize that I had fell in love with her, but I was afraid to tell her since I did not know what her feeling toward me was. One day, she sent me a Daisy, but I didn't know what it meaned at that time, so I back home and searched Daisy online to figure out what it was. And there was a movie named Daisy standing out from the search results. Thus, I watched the movie, and I was astonished by one scene of which showed that the leading man sent the leading lady Daisy every week to show his love to her. At that time, I came to realize sending Daisy to someone might mean, "I love you." Moreover, I used wikipedia to search for the meaning of Daisy, and it indeed showed that Daisy standed for love. I was so excited, and then I called Heidi at night to confess my love to her. Now, she becomes my girlfriend, and we have been together for one year.

Web site(s) that has good information about this plant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_%282006_film%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellis_perennis

http://symbolism.wikia.com/wiki/Daisy

http://livingartsoriginals.com/flower-daisy.htm

http://www.flowermeaning.com/daisy-flower-meaning/

http://www.theflowerexpert.com/content/growingflowers/flowersandgeography/daisies