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the flower that smells like it's trying to win an argument with the entire perfume industry
means A fragrant flowering plant native to southern Africa, with funnel-shaped blooms in cheerful colors and a famously sweet, citrusy scent, popular in gardens and bouquets.
from Named in honor of Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese, a 19th-century German physician and botanist, by his friend the botanist who first described the genus. So the flower carries a person's surname dressed up in botanical Latin — a small monument to a friendship, blooming every spring.
- named after
- a German doctor, Friedrich Freese, not a fragrance
- native turf
- mostly South Africa, where it grows wild
- the scent trick
- smell is strongest in white and yellow varieties
- zigzag stems
- flowers line up on one bent side
- perfume staple
- often faked synthetically since the oil is scarce
freesia alba — white flowering species native to south africa, cultivated worldwide since the 1800s
freesia refracta — yellow fragrant species from south africa, most common variety in commercial floristry