Atlixco, Mexico (EFE).- In the central Mexican town of Atlixco, fields of cempasúchil (marigold) burst into vivid shades of orange and gold as producers begin harvesting the blooms ahead of the Day of ...

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The Fresno Metro Ministry community garden at the corner of Poplar and Belmont avenues –filled with the vibrant orange color in different shades of the cempasúchil flower (called marigold in English)– ...

In the fields of Atlixco, San Fúlix Hidalgo, San Pedro Cholula and San Gregorio Zacapechpan in the central Mexican state of Puebla, golden flowers shine like the sun next to an elegant purple flower.

This Día de los Muertos altar on display at a public shrine in Oaxaca, Mexico, shows several traditional ofrendas, including cempasúchil --the Aztec name of the marigold flower native to Mexico. The ...

The musky smell of marigolds, or cempasúchil, were thick throughout Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles on Saturday, and Angie Jimenez couldn't wait for it. "I love that smell and I love that it ...