Happy Freesia Holiday Bouquet

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Happy Freesia Holiday Bouquet

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Michele Avanti

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Photograph - Photography

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Happy Freesia Seasonal Bouquet, photographed by Michele Avanti in Roseburg, Oregon.

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A beautiful pink with specks of magenta or fuschia and stunning yellow stamen make this such a happy flower. Here it is surrounded by bright green mums and berries. A lovely seasonal fall, autumn or winter bouquet. Would be a stunning centerpiece for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Wonderful wall decor to lift your spirits in the darkest time of year.

Freesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1866. It is native to the eastern side of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa,[1] most species being found in Cape Province.[citation needed] Species of the former genus Anomatheca are now included in Freesia.[1] The plants commonly known as "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped flowers, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia species. Some other species are also grown as ornamental plants.

They are herbaceous plants which grow from a corm 1-2.5 cm diameter, which sends up a tuft of narrow leaves 10-30 cm long, and a sparsely branched stem 10-40 cm tall bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of flowers with six tepals. Many species have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped flowers, although those formerly placed in the genus Anomatheca, such as F. laxa, have flat flowers.
Freesias are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Large Yellow Underwing.

The plants usually called "freesias" are derived from crosses made in the 19th century between F. refracta and F. leichtlinii. Numerous cultivars have been bred from these species and the pink- and yellow-flowered forms of F. corymbosa. Modern tetraploid cultivars have flowers ranging from white to yellow, pink, red and blue-mauve. They are widely cultivated and readily increased from seed. Due to their specific and pleasing scent, they are often used in hand creams, shampoos, candles, etc.

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