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 called after German botanist and doctor Friedrich Freese (1794-1878). It really is native to the eastern aspect of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most varieties being within Cape Provinces. Species of the ex - genus Anomatheca are now contained in Freesia. The plant life often called "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped blossoms, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia varieties. Some other types are also harvested as ornamental plants.
They are really herbaceous plant life 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 large bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of blossoms with six tepals. Many kinds have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped plants, although those formerly placed in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have chiseled flowers. Freesias are being used as food crops by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Large Yellowish Underwing.
CULTIVATION AND USES
The plant life usually called "freesias" are derived from crosses made in the 19th hundred years between F. refracta and F. leichtlinii. Numerous cultivars have been bred from these kinds and the red- and yellow-flowered kinds of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have blooms ranging from white to yellowish, green, red and blue-mauve. They are simply mostly cultivated appropriately in holland by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be easily increased from seed. Due to their specific and desirable scent, they are often used in palm products, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the blooms are mainly used in wedding bouquets. They could be planted in the fall in USDA Hardiness Zones 9-10 (i.e. where in fact the temperature does not fall 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 varieties of the genus which is commonly cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it has flat rather than cup-shaped bouquets. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in Half Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the light bulbs in proprietary methods to satisfy frigid dormancy which results in creation of buds in a predicted volume of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous crops (in botanical use frequently simply herbal products) are crops that contain no consistent woody stem above surface. Herbaceous crops may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants pass away completely by the end of the growing season or when they may have flowered and fruited, and they then grow again from seed. Herbaceous perennial and biennial plants may have stems that die by the end of the growing season, but parts of the plant survive under or near the bottom from season to season (for biennials, until the next growing season, when they flower and expire). New development develops from living cells left over on or under the bottom, including origins, a caudex (a thickened part of the stem at ground level) or various types of underground stems, such as lights, 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 crops are woody plants which have stems above earth that remain alive through the dormant season and grow shoots the next year from the above-ground parts - these include trees, shrubs and vines.
Freesia Drawing
Freesia Tattoo Design by Norzac on DeviantArt
flower study, freesia by cookiee07 on DeviantArt
Freesia Stipple by fatboygotsick on deviantART
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