3 Freesia grandiflora Seeds - syn. Anomatheca grandiflora Seeds - Indigenous Bulbs Seeds

Freesia grandiflora Seeds

South African Indigenous Perennial Flower

Freesia is a genus of 14-16 species of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, native to Africa. Of the 14 species, 12 are native to Cape Province, South Africa, the remaining two to tropical Africa, one species extending north of the equator to Sudan. The genus was named in honour of Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese (1795-1876), German physician. 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 fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped flowers. Freesia grandiflora is a summer rainfall species from Kwa Zulu-Natal but it blooms in spring. The flowers resemble Freesia laxa but are much larger and scarlet with a dark red blotch at the base.