Iris sanguinea Propagate Add glossy dark green foliage

Add glossy dark green foliage and clear golden fall color

This selection came out of the Florida Citrus Arboretum

and only the pollinated females set the blazing red fruit the species is grown for

most at home in deep

" for the paired styles at the heart of each small bloom

Iris sanguinea Propagate Add glossy dark green foliageThere is a small lie in the name. Sanguinea means blood, and yet the iris in front of you is blue, or blue running toward violet, with only a wine dark deepening in the falls to argue the case. The botanists felt the strain too: Carl Thunberg first tried to file the plant as Iris orientalis in 1794, found that name already taken, and the species waited until 1813 for the one carried since. The Japanese never bothered with Latin. To them the flower is