Freesia x hybrida

Freesia is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plant life in the family Iridaceae, first referred to as a genus in 1866 by Chr. Fr. Echlon (1795-1868) and called after German botanist and doctor Friedrich Freese (1794-1878). It really is indigenous to the eastern part of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most species being found in Cape Provinces. Kinds of the ex - genus Anomatheca are now included in Freesia. The plant life often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped flowers, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia kinds. Some other varieties are also expanded as ornamental plant life.

They may be herbaceous plant life which grow from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm diameter, which directs up a tuft of narrow 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 flowers with six tepals. Many species have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped blossoms, although those previously put in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have level flowers. Freesias are being used as food crops by the larvae of some Lepidoptera types including Large Yellowish Underwing.

CULTIVATION AND USES

The plant life usually called "freesias" derive from crosses made in the 19th hundred years between F. refracta and F. leichtlinii. Numerous cultivars have been bred from these types and the green- and yellow-flowered kinds of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have bouquets ranging from white to yellow, red, red and blue-mauve. They are really mostly cultivated professionally in the Netherlands by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be quickly increased from seed. Because of the specific and satisfying scent, they are often used in hands creams, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the plants are mainly utilized in wedding bouquets. They could be planted in the fall in USDA Hardiness Zones 9-10 (i.e. where in fact the temperature does not land below about -7 ?C (20 ?F)), and in the spring and coil in Areas 4-8.

Freesia laxa (previously called Lapeirousia laxa or Anomatheca cruenta) is one of the other varieties of the genus which is often cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it offers flat alternatively than cup-shaped plants. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in Half Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the bulbs in proprietary methods to satisfy wintry dormancy which results in creation of buds inside a predicted range of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).

Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbal remedies) are plant life which may have no continual woody stem above earth. Herbaceous plants may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Total annual herbaceous plants pass away completely by the end of the growing season or when they have got flowered and fruited, and they then develop again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial plants may have stems that die by the end of the growing season, but parts of the plant make it through under or close to the bottom from season to season (for biennials, before next growing season, when they blossom and die). New expansion evolves from living tissue staying on or under the ground, including root base, a caudex (a thickened part of the stem at walk out) or various types of underground stems, such as lights, corms, stolons, rhizomes and tubers. Types of herbaceous biennials include carrot, parsnip and common ragwort; herbaceous perennials include potato, peony, hosta, mint, most ferns and most grasses. In comparison, non-herbaceous perennial crops are woody vegetation that have stems above earth that stay alive through the dormant season and expand shoots another 12 months from the above-ground parts - these include trees and shrubs, shrubs and vines.

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