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Chocolate Cosmos

Flowering Plants

Chocolate cosmos is a flowering plant native to Mexico, grown for its dark maroon, velvety blooms that give off a genuine scent of chocolate and vanilla, most noticeable on warm days. The wild form of the plant is now considered extinct in its native habitat, and every chocolate cosmos in cultivation today descends from a single clone propagated through cuttings and tubers rather than seed. Because it rarely if ever sets viable seed, the species depends entirely on people to keep it in existence.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Scientific Name
Cosmos atrosanguineus 1
Conservation Status
Not Evaluated 4
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 3
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Asteraceae, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Chocolate Cosmos
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Mexico

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Cosmos atrosanguineus
Wikipedia
  • Wikidata Q1535295 (P225 taxon name)
  • lead sentence (diet), EntityId 344592
    Cosmos atrosanguineus, the chocolate cosmos, is a species of Cosmos, native to Mexico.
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2. GBIF Species API
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3. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Asterales
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12418
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12418
"cites_listing":"I/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Asterales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]
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4. GBIF (IUCN Red List category): GBIF IUCN Red List category for Cosmos atrosanguineus
GBIF (IUCN Red List category)GBIF taxon key 3098976, category field
Quote, GBIF taxon key 3098976, category field
"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Asteraceae
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12520
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12520
"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"
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Wikidata: Chocolate Cosmos
Child Taxon Of: Asteraceae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source
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