Freesia is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first referred to as a genus in 1866 by Chr. Fr. Echlon (1795-1868) and named after German botanist and doctor Friedrich Freese (1794-1878). It is local to the eastern area of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most species being within Cape Provinces. Species of the previous genus Anomatheca are now included in Freesia. The plant life often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped blooms, are cultivated hybrids of lots of Freesia types. Some other species are also expanded as ornamental vegetation.
They are herbaceous plant life which grow from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm size, which transmits up a tuft of slim leaves 10-30 cm long, and a sparsely branched stem 10-40 cm tall bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of plants with six tepals. Many varieties have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped flowers, although those previously placed in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have level flowers. Freesias are being used as food plant life by the larvae of some Lepidoptera varieties including Large Yellow Underwing.
CULTIVATION AND USES
The plant life usually called "freesias" derive from crosses manufactured in the 19th century between F. refracta and F. leichtlinii. Numerous cultivars have been bred from these varieties and the red- and yellow-flowered kinds of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have plants ranging from white to yellow, green, red and blue-mauve. These are mostly cultivated skillfully in holland by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be easily increased from seed. Because of their specific and attractive scent, they are often used in hand creams, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the blooms are mainly utilized in wedding bouquets. They can be planted in the fall in USDA Hardiness Areas 9-10 (i.e. where in fact the temperature does not fall below about -7 ?C (20 ?F)), and in the spring and coil in Areas 4-8.
Freesia laxa (formerly called Lapeirousia laxa or Anomatheca cruenta) is one of the other types of the genus which is commonly cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it includes flat somewhat than cup-shaped plants. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in two Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the light bulbs in proprietary methods to satisfy wintry dormancy which results in formation of buds in a predicted range of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbal selections) are vegetation which have no consistent woody stem above earth. Herbaceous crops may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Total annual herbaceous plants die completely at the end of the growing season or when they may have flowered and fruited, plus they then increase again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial plants may have stems that pass away by the end of the growing season, but parts of the plant survive under or near the bottom from season to season (for biennials, until the next growing season, when they rose and perish). New growth grows from living cells remaining on or under the ground, including root base, a caudex (a thickened part of the stem at ground level) or numerous kinds of underground stems, such as bulbs, corms, stolons, rhizomes and tubers. Examples of herbaceous biennials include carrot, parsnip and common ragwort; herbaceous perennials include potato, peony, hosta, mint, most ferns & most grasses. By contrast, non-herbaceous perennial plants are woody plants which have stems above surface that remain alive during the dormant season and develop shoots another 12 months from the above-ground parts - included in these are trees, shrubs and vines.
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