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Post by nowheregirl on Sept 14, 2007 18:42:30 GMT 1
Someone sent me this picture of the Double Fantasy flower which inspired the title of the Double Fantasy album, after John saw it in the Botanical Gardens in Bermuda.  |
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Post by givepeaceachance on Sept 14, 2007 19:44:56 GMT 1
What type of flower is it?
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Post by nowheregirl on Sept 14, 2007 19:51:09 GMT 1
A freesia, I think.
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Post by onolennon on Apr 22, 2008 19:10:12 GMT 1
From Wikipedia: Freesia (Ecklon ex Klatt) 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. This is a freesia:  There are some similarities, but I'm not sure if the one John saw was a freesia. |
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Post by nowheregirl on Apr 22, 2008 21:26:56 GMT 1
Thanks for posting that, onolennon. I remember reading somewhere that it was a freesia he saw in Bermuda, but maybe it wasn't.
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