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STOCK ASST FRESH Availability : Mostly spring and summer to year-round.
Shelf Life: 5-7 Days
Color :White, cream, yellow, pink, purple.
Flower fragrance is spicy, clove-like.
Sold by: Bunches
Bunches: 10 stms per bunch
Botanical Name :Matthiola incana
Common Name : Stock, Gillyflower
Product Use : Cut Flower
Pronunciation : ma-tee-O-la in-KAY-na
Family Roots : Member of the Brassicacee or Cruciferae (mustard family).
Native to the Mediterranean region.
Common relatives include alyssum, wallflower, candytuft and nasturtium.
Personality : Has double flowers 1 inch wide in 6-8 inch columnar clusters at ends of stems.
Stems leafy, 12-28 inches long.
Plant is an annual, classed as a dicotyledon, leaves not parallel veined.
Ethylene Sensitivity : Medium
Care and Handling: Remove bottom leaves if present, recut stems under water and place into a fresh flower food solution. Cut stems above semi-woody base, do not pound the stems. Use properly made fresh flower food solutions because stems of this species tend to quickly contaminate vase solutions if made too weak.
You want to avoid smelly vase/bucket water that can be a problem because this field grown species is often contaminated with microbes, dirt and debris which can make the water/solution go bad quickly.
Storage Specifics : 32-34F.
Tidbits :Named for Dr. Peter Andrew Matthioli, an Italian physician and botanist (1500-1577). The specific epithet name incana means hairy.
In 16th century Saxony, people bred new colors of stock but each village was only allowed one color in order to keep the shades distinct.
Single and double flower forms exist but the double forms are most desirable.
Do NOT pound stem bases with a mallet as it will not improve water uptake.
Cruciferae means cross, referring to the petals positioned as a cross. In obvious reference to Jesus and the crucifix.
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