Just Say No to Abuse Declaring War on Terrorism. The Ixia is closely related to the Freesia. It is a family of over thirty species Plants with a corm covered with fibrous tunics. Leaves are in two erect ranks, deciduous. Inflorescence is simple or branched in a dense or loose spike.
Stems are thin and wiry.
The flowers have a long or short perianth tube and more or less equal spreading segments. Fruit is a capsule of small, brown, angled seeds. The name Ixia is derived from an old Greek name for a plant noted for the variability of its coloring. Several species are commonly known in South Africa as klossies or kalossies, and a few as koring-blommetjies. The information below is reprinted from a previous article as it is relevant to our current discussion.