Freesia is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described 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 native to the eastern aspect of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most species being found in Cape Provinces. Varieties of the previous genus Anomatheca are actually included in Freesia. The plants commonly known as "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped flowers, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia varieties. Some other types are also produced as ornamental vegetation.
They can be herbaceous crops which develop from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm diameter, which delivers up a tuft of narrow leaves 10-30 cm long, and a sparsely branched stem 10-40 cm high bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of plants with six tepals. Many species have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped bouquets, although those formerly put in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have even flowers. Freesias are used as food vegetation by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Large Yellow Underwing.
CULTIVATION AND USES
The vegetation usually called "freesias" are derived from crosses made in the 19th hundred years between F. refracta and F. leichtlinii. Numerous cultivars have been bred from these kinds and the green- and yellow-flowered kinds of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have bouquets ranging from white to yellow, pink, red and blue-mauve. They are really mostly cultivated appropriately in the Netherlands by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be easily increased from seed. Because of the specific and pleasing scent, they are often used in hand ointments, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the bouquets are mainly used in wedding bouquets. They can be planted in the semester in USDA Hardiness Areas 9-10 (i.e. where in fact the temperature will not show up below about -7 ?C (20 ?F)), and in the planting season in Areas 4-8.
Freesia laxa (formerly 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, they have flat alternatively than cup-shaped plants. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in two Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the bulbs in proprietary solutions to satisfy wintry dormancy which results in development of buds in just a predicted amount of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous crops (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are crops that contain no prolonged woody stem above ground. Herbaceous crops may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants expire completely at the end of the growing season or when they may have flowered and fruited, plus they then expand 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 ground from season to season (for biennials, before next growing season, when they rose and expire). New development builds up from living cells staying on or under the ground, including roots, a caudex (a thickened portion of the stem at walk out) or various types 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 and most grasses. In comparison, non-herbaceous perennial vegetation are woody vegetation that have stems above surface that stay alive during the dormant season and increase shoots the next time from the above-ground parts - included in these are trees, shrubs and vines.
File:White freesia in Portela Apr 2013.jpg Wikimedia Commons
File:Freesia refracta.jpg Wikimedia Commons
Freesia hybrid, single flowered cultivar
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