Bearded Iris (Iris albicans)

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Bearded Iris (Iris albicans)

***** Location: Yemen
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation



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Iris albicans, known as the white flag iris or the cemetery iris, has been cultivated since ancient times and may be the oldest iris in cultivation. Collected by Lange in 1860, it has been in cultivation since at least 1400 BC. Originating from Yemen and Saudi Arabia, it appears in a wall painting of the Botantical Garden of Tuthmosis III in the Temple of Amun at Karnak in ancient Thebes dated around 1426 BC.
It grows to 30-60 cm tall and is fragrant.
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Worldwide use

Iris (ayame, shoobu, hanashoobu, airisu, kakitsubata) Japan


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

I mention the rainbow
in front of
white iris

white end
passes the night outside
Iris

Heike Gewi, Yemen, May 2008

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***** Iris (ayame, shoobu, hanashoobu, airisu, kakitsubata) Japan



***** YEMEN SAIJIKI


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