Scientific Name: Freesia x hybrida
Common Name: freesia
Family Name: Iridaceae
Origin: Africa, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Flowering cut plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Arching
Form: Vase
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Cut flower or foliage, Floristry
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White, Yellow, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Jan-Feb-Mar-Apr-Nov-Dec
Fruit: Capsule, Green, Brown, May-Jun
Key ID Features:
Leaves iris-like, narrow, sword-shaped, florets sweetly fragrant, funnel-shaped, 5-10 form on an arching, spike-like cyme, peduncle wiry, up to 45cm tall.