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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 indigenous to the eastern side of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most kinds being found in Cape Provinces. Varieties of the past genus Anomatheca are now contained in Freesia. The plants often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped bouquets, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia kinds. Some other kinds are also harvested as ornamental vegetation.

They are herbaceous plant life which expand from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm diameter, which sends 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 used as food vegetation by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Large Yellow Underwing.

CULTIVATION AND USES

The vegetation 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 kinds and the green- and yellow-flowered types of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have bouquets ranging from white to yellow, red, red and blue-mauve. They are simply mostly cultivated properly in the Netherlands by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be easily increased from seed. Because of their specific and satisfying scent, they are generally used in hand products, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the flowers are mainly used in wedding bouquets. They can be planted in the fall season in USDA Hardiness Zones 9-10 (i.e. where in fact the temperature does not show up 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 species of the genus which is often cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it includes flat rather than cup-shaped flowers. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in Half Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the lights in proprietary methods to satisfy cool dormancy which results in creation of buds within the predicted number of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).

Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply natural remedies) are crops which may have no persistent woody stem above floor. Herbaceous plant life may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants die completely by the end of the growing season or when they may have flowered and fruited, plus they then develop again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial crops may have stems that pass away by the end of the growing season, but parts of the plant endure under or near to the bottom from season to season (for biennials, before next growing season, when they bloom and expire). New progress advances from living tissue remaining on or under the bottom, including root base, a caudex (a thickened part of the stem at walk out) or various types of underground stems, such as light bulbs, corms, stolons, rhizomes and tubers. Types 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 that have stems above ground that stay alive through the dormant season and expand shoots the next yr from the above-ground parts - these include trees, shrubs and vines.

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