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Identify this iris please!

shinygirlshinygirl Posts: 5
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Hi all, I'm presuming that this is an iris - the plant has creeping rhizomes, approx. 50cm tall, it throws up a long stem with a few fan shaped leaves at the end, and in the middle there's a flower stem with the most wonderful small iris type flowers. There's no ground foliage at all. I've been trawling through Google images and can find no indication of what this plant is called, and I'd love to know. It's real easy to grow and a very exotic looking plant.

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 11,186
    That's a lovely flower but I'm afraid it's got me stumped. Anybody else know?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,928
    Trawling up something from the depths of my memory, I've a sneaky feeling that's a type of hemerocallis ........ but I won't be surprised if I'm wrong ....  :s


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,160
    Iris japonica?


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • shinygirlshinygirl Posts: 5
    Yes Nutcutlet, that seems to be the one, just had a look at Iris Japonica on Google images and it really does look like it. Thanks so much! 
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,160
     :) 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,452
    edited May 2018
    Another  one to concider is Iris confusa...maybe Iris confusa Martyn Rix.

    http://www.johnjearrard.co.uk/plants/iris/irisconfusamartynrix/species.html

    Quote wiki...."It has stout, creeping rhizomes.They are short and bamboo-like.It also has short stolons. On top of the rhizome are various scars and the remains of last seasons leaves. The creeping habit eventually forms thick clumps"

    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • shinygirlshinygirl Posts: 5
    Yes, that's my one. The stems are lanky and have no leaves on them now and I was going to say that they're rather bamboo-like.

    You guys are wonderful, thanks you so much for the assistance. It's a lovely plant and now I finally know what it is!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,928
    Dovefromabove said:
    Trawling up something from the depths of my memory, I've a sneaky feeling that's a type of hemerocallis ........ but I won't be surprised if I'm wrong ....  :s

    Ah well, I said I wouldn't be surprised didn't I .......... duh! 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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