Freesia is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plant life 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 side of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most varieties being within Cape Provinces. Kinds of the previous genus Anomatheca are actually contained in Freesia. The crops often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped bouquets, are cultivated hybrids of lots of Freesia types. Some other kinds are also grown as ornamental crops.
They may be herbaceous vegetation which develop 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 extra tall bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of blooms with six tepals. Many varieties have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped bouquets, although those previously located in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have smooth flowers. Freesias are being used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera kinds including Large Yellow 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 species and the green- and yellow-flowered types of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have blooms ranging from white to yellow, pink, red and blue-mauve. They are mostly cultivated properly in the Netherlands by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be immediately increased from seed. Because of the specific and pleasing scent, they are often used in palm ointments, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the bouquets are mainly utilized in wedding bouquets. They can be planted in the fall in USDA Hardiness Zones 9-10 (i.e. where the temperature does not land below about -7 ?C (20 ?F)), and in the spring in Zones 4-8.
Freesia laxa (previously called Lapeirousia laxa or Anomatheca cruenta) is one of the other kinds of the genus which is commonly cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it has flat alternatively than cup-shaped bouquets. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in two Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the light bulbs in proprietary solutions to satisfy frosty dormancy which results in creation of buds in just a predicted range of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are crops which have no persistent woody stem above earth. Herbaceous plant life may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants perish completely by the end of the growing season or when they may have flowered and fruited, plus they then grow again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial crops may have stems that die by the end of the growing season, but elements of the plant survive under or near the bottom from season to season (for biennials, before next growing season, when they blossom and pass away). New expansion advances from living tissues left over 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 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 and most grasses. By contrast, non-herbaceous perennial vegetation are woody plants that have stems above ground that continue to be alive during the dormant season and increase shoots another calendar year from the above-ground parts - these include trees and shrubs, shrubs and vines.
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