EVALUATION OF CHAMOMILE CULTIVARS (CHAMOMILLA RECUTITA (L.) RAUSCHERT) IN DIFFERENT HANDLINGS OF PRUNING

This experiment has been performed from March to December in 1996, at Federal University of Parana’s Experimental Station of Canguiri, in the city of Pinhais — Paraná-Brazil (25° 26′ S and 49° 16′ W, 947 m); Cfb by Koeppen climate, temperature average of 24°C maximum and 11°C minimum, rainfall annual average 1500 mm.

Chamomile is the most cultivated medicinal plant in Brazil.
Despite of this, there is no much information about its cultivation.
Some farmers pratice pruning to uniform the height of the plants and concentrate flowering.
In Argentina, animals are used for pasturing at the beginning of growth.

This experimental work focused at evaluating the effect of three handlings: T0 — no pruning (control), T1 — pruning in the beginning of growth, and T2 — pruning on the first harvest, in the production of three chamomile cultivars (Chamomilla recutita (L.) Rauschert).

II WOCMAP Congress Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Part 3: Agricultural Production, Post Harvest Techniques, Biotechnology

L. Doni Filho, J.J. Crachineski, M.V.R. Milléo, C. Corrêa Jr

Medicinal plants, Asteraceae, Brazil

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1999.502.29