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Freesia speciosa 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 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 speciosa grows to 20cm tall with inclined to prostrate sword-shaped leaves. It bears a horizontal spike of white & deep yellow sweetly-scented flowers during spring. It is normally found in dry areas.