Value added products can be made from fresh flowers, including cut flower arrangements, bouquets, rangoli, garlands, floral jewelry, corsages, buttonholes, and wreaths. Processed flower products include essential oils extracted through solvent treatment and evaporation, as well as floral concretes, absolutes, dyes, teas, cosmetics, room fresheners, pharmaceuticals, and natural insecticides like pyrethrum. Flowers can also be used to create processed products like squashes, wines, and marmalades.
2. Value added products made
from fresh flowers are
O Cut flower arrangement
O Flower bouquets
O Rangoli
O Garlands
O Floral jewellery
O Corsages
O Buttonholes/ boutonniere
O Wreath
3. Processed flower products are
O Essential oil
O Absolute
O Concrete
O Rose products (Gulroban/ Gulroghan, Gulkand,
rose syrup, pankhuri etc.)
O Dyes from flowers
O Floral products
O Floral tea
O Bathing and other body care products
O Pharmaceutical products
O Nutraceutical products
12. STEP I – Solvent treatment
Flowers are soaked in Food Grade Hexane (Having Boiling point of 70oC).
Mixing Hexane 2 litres / kg of flowers for 30 minutes.
Rotate the container slowly for 20 minutes in the rotary type of extractor.
Perfume substance along with wax and pigments dissolved in Hexane
STEP II – Evaporation
Perfume laden solvent is led into the evaporator
Evaporation at a constant temperature of 75oC.
Vapour of the solvent condemned into liquid for recycling
Liquid (Perfume, wax & pigments) is distilled in a vacuum distillation unit
for complete removal of solvent in the still
Floral concrete settled in the still in the form of molten wax
Cooled and Stored in glass (or) aluminium containers
13.
14. Concrete : it is a non-purified form of
essential oil obtained mostly by means
of solvent extraction where the
essential oils, plant pigments and
waxes are present.
Jasmine sambac Concrete
15. Absolute is highly concentrated , entirely alcohol
soluble usually liquid perfume material obtained by
alcohol extraction from concrete or from fat
extracts of plant material.
27. Natural organic insecticides
Pyrethrum is also the name of a
natural insecticide made from the
dried flower heads of
Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium and
Chrysanthemum coccineum. Its
active ingredient are pyrethrins.
Tanacetum cinerariifolium
Tanacetum
coccineum
28. Use of marigold root extract:
terthienyl as nematicide for root knot
nematodes
