Difference between cut flowers and foliage?
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Cut flowers are harvested with stalk, especially for arrangement in vases, and are lasting. These constitute a major share of the total world trade in floricultural products. Cut flowers are used in the preparation of bouquets and floral baskets as corsages, flower arrangements and for decoration purposes.
Important cut flower crops are rose, carnation, tulip, chrysanthemum, orchid, gerbera, lilium, anthurium, gladiolus, heliconia, narcissus, bird of paradise etc.
Cut foliages (leaves and stems), which are attractive in form, colour and freshness, are lasting and in great demand. These are used as fillers along with cut flowers in flower arrangements and elsewhere for increasing aesthetic value. These floral produce have various other uses in making attractive fresh floral designs and floral arrangements, such as bouquets, wreaths, decoration of house interiors, etc.
Some of the cut foliages in demand are asparagus, ferns, thuja, cupressus, eucalyptus, etc.