Cempoalxochitl: the Mexican flower the world calls African

The marigold of Mexican gardens and Mexican graves was described as a medicinal herb of New Spain in the Mexican imprint of 1615 that carries Francisco Hernández's survey, reached Europe in the sixteenth century out of Mexico, and is now grown on thousands of hectares worldwide as the industrial source of lutein. It travelled under names — African marigold, cravo de defuntos — that record everything about its later career and nothing about where it came from.