The invention provides a method for identifying carnation chromosome number by bud, comprising: obtaining bud anther, ovary wall and corolla tissue, pre-treating ice water mixture, fixing by stationary liquid, dyeing, dissociating with hydrochloric acid, tabletting and microscopic examining. Compared with the traditional method that a root tip tissue is used for chromosome tabletting, the invention solves the disadvantages of few visual filed cells, difficult microscopic examination and poor chromosome dispersion during root tip chromosome tabletting, and overcomes the problems of long rootage period for carnation cutting seedling and time and labor wasting for cutting; compared with stem tip chromosome tabletting, the invention overcomes the interference problem of non-meristematic cell or reserve substance or secretion, chromosome tabletting can be realized only by using buds, which does not damage plant growing state and has convenient material resource; in addition, a plurality ofmetaphase cells exist, so that the difficulties of small carnation chromosome, huge quantity and hard counting of the chromosome can be solved. Thus, when plants bloom, the effective method is that the bud is used for chromosome tabletting.