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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. |