Biology 2217B Lecture Notes - Floriculture, Plant Propagation, Lilium Longiflorum
19 Apr 2013
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Flowers spread from middle east and hanging gardens of babylon were aesthetic wonders. Long history of religious folk and national symbolism: gifts of love, friendship, etc, plant have different meanings. Texture associate certain visual patterns with tactile sesations. Line vertical branching patterns and drive eye up. Hybrids get a formula name: rosa alba and rosa nigra; hybrid rosa alba x rosa nigra. Hybrids of unknown percentage: rosa x wilsonii. The culture of plants flowering and foliage, production, distribution. Production begins at plant propagation, market size and age: grown in greenhouse enclosed glass structure, allows environment control, growers may specialize profit, climate, location of market. Cut flowers supply wholesale florists: grow, cut, and sell wholesaler, roses, carnation, chrysanthimums, includes curt foliage and leaves. Potted flowering plants flowering plants in pots: in greenhouses (ex: poinsettias, easter lilies, african violets) Foliage plants potted plants grown and sold for their leaves: florida is large producer (ex philodendrums, figs)
