A freesia (Freesia hybrida Hort.) ‘Song of Angel’ was developed for the cut flower in the National Institute of Horticultural Herbal Science in 2013. This hybrid was crossed and selected from a seedling of three-way crossing ‘Golden Flame’ and the seedling of ‘Athene’ and ‘Yvonne’ in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Morphological characteristics of the selected freesia hybrid were investigated for 5 years from 2008 to 2012, and then it was named ‘Song of Angel’ in 2013. ‘Song of Angel’ has single flower and yellow petals (RHS, YG13B) with yellow center color (RHS, YG13A). The average flower width is 5.8 cm and the average yield is 4.3. The growth of the plant shows vigorous and the average height is 95.3cm, and it is higher than about 30cm that of control cultivar ‘Yvonne’. The average number of floret per stalk and stalk length, 14.3, and stalk was 11.1 cm length is higher than the ‘Yvonne’, 9.7 and 8.3cm length, respectively. The average days to first flowering of ‘Song of Angel’, 141 days, was approximately 10 days earlier than the control cultivar. It’s average vase life and yield is 10.7 days and 6.2 cormlets per plant, respectively.

• Youn Jung Choi(Floriculture Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science) Corresponding Author
• Hyang Young Jeoung(Floriculture Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science)
• Dae Hoe Goo(Floriculture Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science)
• Yun Im Kang(Floriculture Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science)
• Hae Ryong Cho(Floriculture Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science)