LISIANTHUS ASST

Availability : Year-round.
Shelf Life: 10-14 Days
Flower Color : White, pink, purple, red, bicolor, picotees, blue.
Flowers are not fragrant.
Sold by: Bunches
Bunches: 10 stms per bunch

Botanical Name : Eustoma grandiflorum
Common Name :Lisianthus, Prairie Gentian
Product Use : Cut Flower
Pronunciation : yew-STO-ma grand-i-FLOR-um
Family Roots : Member of the Gentianaceae (gentian) family.

Native to the Great Plains of North America, most notably Texas.

Two common relatives are gentian and exacum or Persian violet.

Personality : Flowers cupped or tulip-like, 2 inches in diameter and 3 inches long, occur at ends of small branches.

Stems are 16-24 inches long with leaves and many branchlets with flowers at many stages.

Plant is a perennial planted as an annual, classed as a dicotyledon.

Care and Handling: Remove bottom leaves if present, recut stems under water and place into a fresh flower food solution.

Botrytis infection (gray mold) appears as gray patches on leaves. Flowers on side shoots that develop after harvest are almost always lighter in color than the main flowers.

Storage Specifics :36-41 F for up to 3 days.

The specific epithet name "grandiflorum" means large flowers.

From the Greek "eu" (good) and "stoma" (mouth), referring to the beautiful corolla (petal) throat.

This species is geotropic and will bend up if stems are placed horizontally.

Pollination will greatly increase the rate of petal senescence.

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