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 called after German botanist and doctor Friedrich Freese (1794-1878). It is native to the eastern area of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most varieties being found in Cape Provinces. Types of the past genus Anomatheca are actually included in Freesia. The crops commonly known as "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped bouquets, are cultivated hybrids of lots of Freesia varieties. Some other kinds are also cultivated as ornamental crops.
These are herbaceous plant life which expand from a conical corm 1-2.5 cm diameter, which delivers 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 species have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped plants, although those previously placed in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have level flowers. Freesias are being used as food plant life by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Large Yellow Underwing.
CULTIVATION AND USES
The plants usually called "freesias" are derived from crosses manufactured in the 19th hundred years between F. refracta and F. leichtlinii. Numerous cultivars have been bred from these types and the green- and yellow-flowered kinds of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have blossoms ranging from white to yellow, red, red and blue-mauve. These are mostly cultivated skillfully in holland by about 80 growers.[3] Freesias can be conveniently increased from seed. Because of the specific and attractive scent, they are generally used in side creams, shampoos, candles, etc.[citation needed], however, the blooms are mainly utilized 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 land below about -7 ?C (20 ?F)), and in the springtime in Areas 4-8.
Freesia laxa (previously called Lapeirousia laxa or Anomatheca cruenta) is one of the other kinds of the genus which is often cultivated. Smaller than the scented freesia cultivars, it offers flat somewhat than cup-shaped blooms. Extensive 'forcing' of the bulb occurs in Half Moon Bay in California where several growers chill the bulbs in proprietary methods to satisfy frigid dormancy which results in creation of buds in a predicted quantity of weeks - often 5 weeks at 55 ?F (13 ?C).
Herbaceous vegetation (in botanical use frequently simply herbal products) are vegetation that contain no continual woody stem above earth. Herbaceous plant life may be annuals, biennials or perennials. Annual herbaceous plants pass away completely at the end of the growing season or when they may have flowered and fruited, plus they then develop 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 survive under or near the bottom from season to season (for biennials, until the next growing season, when they blossom and pass away). New development builds up from living tissue staying on or under the bottom, including origins, a caudex (a thickened portion of the stem at ground level) or numerous kinds of underground stems, such as light bulbs, corms, stolons, rhizomes and tubers. Types 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 vegetation are woody vegetation that have stems above ground that remain alive through the dormant season and develop shoots the next calendar year from the above-ground parts - these include trees and shrubs, shrubs and vines.
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