Freesia is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering vegetation in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1866 by Chr. Fr. Echlon (1795-1868) and named after German botanist and doctor Friedrich Freese (1794-1878). It really is native to the eastern side of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most varieties being found in Cape Provinces. Kinds of the former genus Anomatheca are actually contained in Freesia. The vegetation often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped blooms, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia varieties. Some other species are also produced as ornamental plant life.
They may be herbaceous crops which increase from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm diameter, which directs up a tuft of small leaves 10-30 cm long, and a sparsely branched stem 10-40 cm extra tall bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of bouquets with six tepals. Many types have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped bouquets, although those previously put in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have flat flowers. Freesias are used as food crops by the larvae of some Lepidoptera types including Large Yellow Underwing.
CULTIVATION AND USES
The crops 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 varieties of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have blossoms ranging from white to yellow, green, red and blue-mauve. They can be mostly cultivated expertly in holland by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be easily increased from seed. Because of the specific and desirable scent, they are often used in side creams, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the blooms are mainly utilized in wedding bouquets. They could be planted in the street to redemption in USDA Hardiness Areas 9-10 (i.e. where the temperature will not fall season 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 offers flat rather than cup-shaped blossoms. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in Half Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the lights in proprietary methods to satisfy cold dormancy which results in creation of buds within a predicted quantity of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous vegetation (in botanical use frequently simply herbal remedies) are crops that contain no persistent woody stem above surface. Herbaceous plants may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants perish completely by the end of the growing season or when they have got flowered and fruited, and they then grow again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial crops may have stems that die by the end of the growing season, but parts of the plant endure under or near to the ground from season to season (for biennials, before next growing season, when they bloom and die). New growth advances from living tissues left over on or under the bottom, including roots, a caudex (a thickened part of the stem at ground level) or various types of underground stems, such as light 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 vegetation are woody vegetation which have stems above floor that stay alive through the dormant season and grow shoots the next time from the above-ground parts - these include trees, shrubs and vines.
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