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 named after German botanist and doctor Friedrich Freese (1794-1878). It is indigenous to the eastern part of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most varieties being within Cape Provinces. Species of the ex - genus Anomatheca are actually included in Freesia. The plant life often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped blooms, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia kinds. Some other types are also grown as ornamental crops.
They may be herbaceous vegetation which increase from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm diameter, which transmits up a tuft of small 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 blooms with six tepals. Many species have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped blossoms, although those previously placed in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have chiseled flowers. Freesias are being used as food plant life by the larvae of some Lepidoptera kinds including Large Yellow Underwing.
CULTIVATION AND USES
The plants usually called "freesias" derive from crosses manufactured in the 19th hundred years between F. refracta and F. leichtlinii. Numerous cultivars have been bred from these types and the pink- and yellow-flowered kinds of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have blooms ranging from white to yellow, red, red and blue-mauve. They can be mostly cultivated properly in holland by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be quickly increased from seed. Because of the specific and pleasing scent, they are often used in hands creams, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the plants are mainly used in wedding bouquets. They could be planted in the semester in USDA Hardiness Areas 9-10 (i.e. where in fact the temperature will not fall below about -7 ?C (20 ?F)), and in the springtime in Zones 4-8.
Freesia laxa (previously called Lapeirousia laxa or Anomatheca cruenta) is one of the other kinds of the genus which is often cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it includes flat rather than cup-shaped blooms. Extensive 'forcing' of this bulb occurs in two Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the bulbs in proprietary methods to satisfy cold dormancy which results in development of buds within the predicted number of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous vegetation (in botanical use frequently simply herbal remedies) are vegetation which have no prolonged woody stem above floor. Herbaceous plant life may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Total annual herbaceous plants perish completely at the end of the growing season or when they have flowered and fruited, plus they then develop again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial vegetation may have stems that die at the end of the growing season, but parts of the plant endure under or near the bottom from season to season (for biennials, before next growing season, when they bloom and die). New growth advances from living tissue remaining on or under the ground, including root base, a caudex (a thickened portion of the stem at walk out) 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. In comparison, non-herbaceous perennial plants are woody vegetation which have stems above floor that remain alive through the dormant season and develop shoots the next 12 months from the above-ground parts - included in these are trees and shrubs, shrubs and vines.
Freesia grandiflora, Mary Sue Ittner
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