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 named after German botanist and doctor Friedrich Freese (1794-1878). It is local to the eastern aspect of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most varieties being found in Cape Provinces. Kinds of the previous genus Anomatheca are actually contained in Freesia. The crops often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped plants, are cultivated hybrids of lots of Freesia species. Some other species are also produced as ornamental plants.
These are herbaceous crops which increase from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm size, which directs up a tuft of thin leaves 10-30 cm long, and a sparsely branched stem 10-40 cm large bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of blooms with six tepals. Many varieties have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped flowers, although those previously put in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have even flowers. Freesias are being used as food vegetation by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Large Yellowish Underwing.
CULTIVATION AND USES
The vegetation 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 kinds and the green- and yellow-flowered kinds of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have flowers which range from white to yellow, pink, red and blue-mauve. They are mostly cultivated appropriately in holland by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be easily increased from seed. Because of their specific and pleasing scent, they are generally used in hands creams, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the flowers are mainly used in wedding bouquets. They could be planted in the land in USDA Hardiness Areas 9-10 (i.e. where 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 species of the genus which is often cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it has flat alternatively than cup-shaped plants. Extensive 'forcing' of this bulb occurs in two Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the bulbs in proprietary solutions to satisfy cool dormancy which results in formation of buds within a predicted amount of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous vegetation (in botanical use frequently simply herbal selections) are plant life which have no persistent woody stem above ground. Herbaceous vegetation may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants perish completely by the end of the growing season or when they have flowered and fruited, plus they then grow again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial vegetation 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 rose and pass away). New expansion builds up from living tissue remaining on or under the bottom, including root base, a caudex (a thickened part of the stem at ground level) 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 plants are woody plant life that have stems above surface that remain alive during the dormant season and expand shoots another time from the above-ground parts - these include trees, shrubs and vines.
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