Freesia is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first referred to as a genus in 1866 by Chr. Fr. Echlon (1795-1868) and known as 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 species being within Cape Provinces. Kinds of the former genus Anomatheca are actually contained in Freesia. The crops often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped bouquets, are cultivated hybrids of lots of Freesia kinds. Some other varieties are also grown as ornamental crops.
They are really herbaceous plants which expand from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm diameter, which transmits 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 blossoms, although those formerly located 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 Yellow Underwing.
CULTIVATION AND USES
The crops usually called "freesias" are derived from crosses manufactured in the 19th century 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 blossoms ranging from white to yellow, green, red and blue-mauve. They may be mostly cultivated professionally in holland by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be quickly increased from seed. Due to their specific and desirable scent, they are often used in palm creams, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the plants are mainly utilized in wedding bouquets. They can be planted in the street to redemption in USDA Hardiness Zones 9-10 (i.e. where the temperature does not fall season 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 varieties of the genus which is commonly cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it has flat somewhat than cup-shaped blooms. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in Half Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the lights in proprietary solutions to satisfy chilly dormancy which results in creation of buds in just a predicted variety of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous vegetation (in botanical use frequently simply herbal products) are plants which may have no consistent woody stem above floor. Herbaceous crops may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants pass away completely at the end of the growing season or when they have flowered and fruited, and they then expand again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial plants may have stems that die at the end of the growing season, but parts of the plant make it through under or near to the ground from season to season (for biennials, until the next growing season, when they bloom and die). New development builds up from living cells remaining on or under the bottom, including roots, 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. 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 plant life which have stems above floor that continue to be alive during the dormant season and expand shoots another 12 months from the above-ground parts - these include trees, shrubs and vines.
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