5 Freesia verrucosa Seeds - Indigenous South African Perennial Bulb Seeds from Africa Flat Ship Rate

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 honor 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 verrucosa is a South African endemic species from the Eastern Cape and Western Cape Provinces where it can be found from Ladismith to Willowmore, Langkloof and Kareedouw. It was previously known as Anomatheca verrucosa and Freesia juncea. lants occur in small colonies along roadsides or in stony washes. Growing from 8 to 20 cm high, this species has 7 to 10 suberect blunt leaves about one third as long as the stem with slightly undulated margins and a thickened midrib. Bracts are short (4 to 5.5 mm) and flowers are bright pink with either the base of lower three tepals or the medial tepal with a whitish or pale yellowish blotch outlined with dark pink. Flowering occurs in spring.

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