Flower preservation method and device
AssigneeTessara (Pty) Ltd
InventorAlwyn Jacobus Van Jaarsveld
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Abstract
This invention relates to a method of preserving one or more cut flowers with the use of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) generating device. The method further relates to an SO2 generating device for the preservation of one or more cut flowers. The device may be in the form of a strip for attachment to a flower sleeve or in the form of an article of any shape for placement inter-bunch and above the flower heads.
Claims10
A method of preserving one or more cut flowers that are exposed to the air during wet transport or storage in buckets, or during display at a point of sale or point of display, comprising providing a sulphur dioxide (SO2) generating device in the form of (i) a SO2 generating strip that is attached to an open top end of a flower sleeve or (ii) in the form of a SO2 generating article of any shape that is positioned above the flower heads wherein the cut flowers that are exposed to the air are at room temperature and 70% relative humidity .
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