Japanese iris

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Etymology

From Japanese +‎ iris.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): / dʒæp.ənˌiːz ˈaɪ.rɪs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌdʒæp.ən.iːz ˈaɪ.rɪs/

Noun

Japanese iris (plural Japanese irises)

  1. An group of iris flower species from East Asia. Scientifically, the three species are hanashōbu (Iris ensata), kakitsubata (Iris laevigata) and ayame (Iris sanguinea). The flowers are found through out Japan, Korea, China, Russia and Mongolia.
    Synonyms: iris, hanashōbu, kakitsubata, ayame
    • 1891, Siegfried Bing, Artistic Japan - Illustrations and Essays, volume 6, page 417:
      Though we have in Europe certain varieties which grow on comparatively dry soil, we never find the Japanese iris represented otherwise than on damp ground.
    • 1937, Floyd Franklin Smith, Leonard Gordon Utter, The Iris Thrips and Its Control by Hot Water with Notes on Other Treatments, page 2:
      Observations have been made over a period of 3 years on infested Japanese iris plants that were very much dwarfed and produced few flowers, but which after treatment to remove the thrips and transplanting to a new location, became vigorous.
    • 1956, Masatsugu Okada, Akira Okamura, Effects of daylength on flowering of Japanese iris (Iris Kaempferi), →DOI, Abstract:
      Effects of artificial illumination on Japanese iris (Iris Kaempferi) were examined.
    • 2024, Makiko Mimura, Marina Takeuchi, Takayuki Kobayashi, Shun K. Hirota, Yoshihisa Suyama, Hirofumi Yamaguchi, Toshihito Tabuchi, Genetic diversity in the traditional cultivars and wild ancestor of near-threatened Japanese iris (Iris ensata Thunb.), →DOI, Abstract:
      Iris ensata var. spontanea, a wild progenitor of the Japanese iris cultivars (I. ensata var. ensata), is extensively cultivated in Japanese gardens, is distributed across mesic meadows and wetlands in Japan and East Asia.

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