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Cosmos
Also called Mexican Asters, Bidens, Mexican Aster
Cosmos is a genus of annual and perennial daisy-family flowers, mostly grown in gardens as Cosmos bipinnatus and Cosmos sulphureus. They are easy, sun-loving plants that bloom freely in poor to average soil.
Cosmos is a genus, with the same common name of cosmos, consisting of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Cosmos species are native to scrub and meadowland in the Americas, from Colorado and Missouri in the United States, extending south through Mexico (where highest species diversity occurs, with 33 of the 35 species) and Central America to South America as far south as northern Argentina.
Cosmos caudatus and C. sulphureus are edible and a major part of salads eaten as appetizers before meals in Maritime Southeast Asia including the Malay ulam and the Sundanese lalab.
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