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Iris (plant)

Index Iris (plant)

Iris is a genus of 260–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers. [1]

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Absolute (perfumery)

Used in perfumery and aromatherapy, absolutes are similar to essential oils.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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American Iris Society

The American Iris Society (AIS, founded 1920) is an organization dedicated to sharing information about and sponsoring research on the iris, a temperate zone plant that is often cultivated for its showy flowers.

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Annals of Human Genetics

The Annals of Human Genetics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering human genetics.

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Aril

An aril (pronounced), also called an arillus, is a specialized outgrowth from a seed that partly or completely covers the seed.

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Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy uses plant materials and aromatic plant oils, including essential oils, and other aroma compounds for improving psychological or physical well-being.

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Artemis

Artemis (Ἄρτεμις Artemis) was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Athena

Athena; Attic Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā, or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaia; Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaiē; Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athānā or Athene,; Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athēnē often given the epithet Pallas,; Παλλὰς is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare, who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

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Bank (geography)

In geography, the word bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water.

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Banshu Yamasaki Iris Garden

Banshu Yamasaki Iris Garden (播州山崎花菖蒲園) is a iris flower garden approximately 1,25 km (2 miles) northeast of Shisō in Hyōgo Prefecture, in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Blue rose

A blue rose is a flower of the genus Rosa (family Rosaceae) that presents blue-to-violet pigmentation instead of the more common red, white, or yellow.

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Bombay Sapphire

Bombay Sapphire is a brand of gin that was first launched in 1987 by IDV.

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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Brian Mathew

Brian Frederick Mathew MBE, VMH is a British botanist, born in the village of Limpsfield, Surrey, England.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Bulb

In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Capsule (fruit)

In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry, though rarely fleshy dehiscent fruit produced by many species of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Chelsea Flower Show

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Clovis I

Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; 466 – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.

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Cultivar

The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.

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Distillation

Distillation is the process of separating the components or substances from a liquid mixture by selective boiling and condensation.

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Essential oil

An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (defined as "the tendency of a substance to vaporize") aroma compounds from plants.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Flag of Quebec

The flag of Quebec, called the Fleurdelisé, represents the province of Quebec.

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Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region

The Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region consists of a stylized yellow, grey and white iris on a blue background.

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Fleur-de-lis

The fleur-de-lis/fleur-de-lys (plural: fleurs-de-lis/fleurs-de-lys) or flower-de-luce is a stylized lily (in French, fleur means "flower", and lis means "lily") that is used as a decorative design or motif, and many of the Catholic saints of France, particularly St. Joseph, are depicted with a lily.

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Floral emblem

In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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George Gessert

George Gessert is one of the best-known artists in the contemporary art movement known as bio-art a/k/a BioArt.

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Giardino dell'Iris

The Giardino dell'Iris is a botanical garden specializing in the cultivation of iris flowers, symbol of Florence since 1251.

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Gin

Gin is liquor which derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries (Juniperus communis).

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Glycoside

In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond.

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Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Greeneville, Tennessee

Greeneville is a town in, and the county seat of Greene County, Tennessee, United States.

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Hades

Hades (ᾍδης Háidēs) was the ancient Greek chthonic god of the underworld, which eventually took his name.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

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Hermodactyloides

The Subgenus Hermodactyloides of Iris includes all reticulate-bulbed bulbous irises.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Holarctic

The Holarctic is the name for the biogeographic realm that encompasses the majority of habitats found throughout the northern continents of the world, combining Wallace's Palearctic zoogeographical region, consisting of North Africa and all of Eurasia (with the exception of the southern Arabian Peninsula, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent), and the Nearctic zoogeographical region, consisting of North America, north of Mexico.

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Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar).

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House of Capet

The House of Capet or the Direct Capetians (Capétiens directs, Maison capétienne), also called the House of France (la maison de France), or simply the Capets, ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328.

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House of Medici

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.

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Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid, or crossbreed, is the result of combining the qualities of two organisms of different breeds, varieties, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.

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Iridaceae

Iridaceae is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises, meaning rainbow, referring to its many colours.

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Iridin

Iridin is an isoflavone, a type of flavonoid.

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Iris (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Iris (Ἶρις) is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.

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Iris anguifuga

Iris anguifuga (or snake-bane iris) is a beardless iris in the genus Iris, in the subgenus Limniris and in the Tenuifoliae series of the species.

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Iris aphylla

Iris aphylla (also known as 'leafless iris', 'table iris' or 'stool iris') is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris, and in Section Iris.

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Iris atropurpurea

Iris atropurpurea, the coastal iris, is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris and in the Oncocyclus section.

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Iris attica

Iris attica ('Greek Iris') is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris.

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Iris bismarckiana

Iris bismarckiana (Nazareth Iris) is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris and in the Oncocyclus section.

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Iris cristata

Iris cristata (also known as dwarf crested iris and crested iris) is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Limniris.

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Iris danfordiae

Iris danfordiae (dwarf iris or Danford iris) is a bulbous perennial, in the species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Hermodactyloides and section 'Reticulatae'.

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Iris domestica

Iris domestica, commonly known as leopard lily, blackberry lily, and leopard flower, is an ornamental plant in the Iridaceae family.

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Iris ensata

Iris ensata, Japanese iris, Japanese water iris (Japanese: hanashōbu), formerly I. kaempferi, is a species of flowering plant of the iris family Iridaceae, native to Japan, China, Korea and Russia, and widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.

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Iris flavescens

Iris flavescens, also known as the lemonyellow iris, is a species of Iris that has distichous leaves and pale yellow flowers.

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Iris flower data set

The Iris flower data set or Fisher's Iris data set is a multivariate data set introduced by the British statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher in his 1936 paper The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems as an example of linear discriminant analysis.

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Iris fulva

Iris fulva (also known as copper iris) is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Limniris and in the Hexagonae.

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Iris germanica

Iris x germanica is the accepted name for a species of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae commonly known as the bearded iris or the German bearded iris.

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Iris histrioides

Iris histrioides, (also known as 'Orchis Iris', ‘winter iris’ and 'Harput iris') is a species in the genus Iris, and in the subgenus of Hermodactyloides.

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Iris junonia

Iris junonia is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris.

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Iris kashmiriana

Iris kashmiriana is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris.

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Iris kemaonensis

Iris kemaonensis (or Kumaon iris) is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris and in the Pseudoregelia section.

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Iris lacustris

Iris lacustris (also known as dwarf lake iris), is a species in the genus Iris, subgenus Limniris and in the Lophiris section (crested irises).

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Iris laevigata

Iris laevigata, known as Japanese iris, rabbit-ear iris or kakitsubata, is a Japanese species of iris related to other members of Iris subgenus Limniris, including other species of Japanese irises.

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Iris latifolia

Iris latifolia, the English iris, also known as I. xiphiodes and I. anglica, is a hardy flowering bulbous species of the iris genus, in the family Iridaceae.

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Iris nigricans

Iris nigricans is a flowering plant in the family Iridaceae.

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Iris pallida

Iris pallida (Dalmatian iris or sweet iris) is a hardy flowering perennial plant of the genus Iris, family Iridaceae.

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Iris persica

Iris persica or Persian Iris is a native plant of Iran.

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Iris pseudacorus

Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag, yellow iris, water flag) is a species of flowering plant of the family Iridaceae.

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Iris pumila

Iris pumila, sometimes known as pygmy iris, probably originated as a natural hybrid between Iris pseudopumila Boissier & Heldreich and I. attica Tineo.

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Iris reichenbachii

Iris reichenbachii, Heuffel.

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Iris reticulata

Iris reticulata (netted iris or golden netted iris) is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae.

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Iris ruthenica

Iris ruthenica, sometimes called ever blooming iris (in the UK), Russian iris, pilgrim iris and Hungarian iris (in Europe), is a species in the genus Iris- subgenus Limniris.

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Iris sambucina

Iris sambucina ('elder scented iris') is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris.

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Iris sanguinea

Iris sanguinea is a rhizomatous flowering plant in the genus Iris and in the Iris series Sibiricae.

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Iris sibirica

Iris sibirica (commonly known as Siberian iris or Siberian flag), is a species in the genus Iris.

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Iris subg. Iris

Subgenus Iris is one subgenus of ''Iris''.

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Iris subg. Limniris

Subgenus Limniris is one subgenus of beardless irises, which don't have hair on their drooping sepals, also called their falls.

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Iris subg. Nepalensis

Iris subg.

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Iris subg. Scorpiris

Iris subg.

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Iris subg. Xiphium

Subgenus Xiphium is a subgenus of Iris.

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Iris tuberosa

Iris tuberosa is a species of non-rhizomatous plant of the genus Iris, with the common names snake's-head, snake's-head iris, widow iris, black iris, or velvet flower-de-luce.

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Iris unguicularis

Iris unguicularis (also commonly known as the Algerian iris) is a rhizomatous flowering plant in the genus Iris, native to Greece, Turkey, Western Syria, and Tunisia.

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Iris variegata

Iris variegata is a species in the genus Iris, also in the subgenus Iris.

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Iris versicolor

Iris versicolor is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, and in Britain and Ireland as purple iris.

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Iris xiphium

Iris xiphium, commonly known as the Spanish iris, is an iris native to Spain and Portugal.

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Japanese iris

The term "Japanese iris" encompasses three species of Irises cultivated in gardens or growing wild in Japan: hanashōbu (Iris ensata), kakitsubata (Iris laevigata) and ayame (Iris sanguinea).

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John James Audubon

John James Audubon (born Jean Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.

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Jordan

Jordan (الْأُرْدُنّ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River.

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Joseph Mason (artist)

Joseph Mason (1808 – October 8, 1842) was an American artist who worked as an assistant to John James Audubon, painting uncredited plant-life backgrounds for some 50 of his bird studies for the book The Birds of America.

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Kappa Kappa Gamma

Kappa Kappa Gamma (ΚΚΓ), also known simply as Kappa or KKG, is a collegiate sorority, founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.

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Kappa Pi

Kappa Pi (ΚΠ) International Art Honor Society, founded in 1911 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, is an International Collegiate Art Honorary Fraternity.

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Lilium candidum

Lilium candidum, the Madonna lily, is a plant in the true lily family.

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Linear discriminant analysis

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), normal discriminant analysis (NDA), or discriminant function analysis is a generalization of Fisher's linear discriminant, a method used in statistics, pattern recognition and machine learning to find a linear combination of features that characterizes or separates two or more classes of objects or events.

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List of early spring flowers

These are some of the plants that come into flower in early spring.

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List of early summer flowers

These flowers come into bloom in the early Summer season.

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List of late spring flowers

These flowers come into bloom in late Spring season.

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List of U.S. state and territory flowers

This is a list of U.S. state and territory flowers.

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Louis VII of France

Louis VII (called the Younger or the Young; Louis le Jeune; 1120 – 18 September 1180) was King of the Franks from 1137 until his death.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Louisiana iris

Louisiana iris is a taxonomic group (Iris ser. Hexagonae) of five iris species native to Louisiana and surrounding regions of the southeastern United States: Iris fulva, Iris hexagona, Iris brevicaulis, Iris giganticaerulea, and Iris nelsonii.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems refers to any ecosystem found in mountains.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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Myristic acid

Myristic acid (IUPAC systematic name: 1-tetradecanoic acid) is a common saturated fatty acid with the molecular formula CH3(CH2)12COOH.

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New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Northern parula

The northern parula (Setophaga americana) is a small New World warbler.

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Nymph

A nymph (νύμφη, nýmphē) in Greek and Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform.

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Oceanid

In Greek mythology and, later, Roman mythology, the Oceanids or Oceanides (Ὠκεανίδες, pl.) are water nymphs who were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.

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Old World

The term "Old World" is used in the West to refer to Africa, Asia and Europe (Afro-Eurasia or the World Island), regarded collectively as the part of the world known to its population before contact with the Americas and Oceania (the "New World").

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Organic acid

An organic acid is an organic compound with acidic properties.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.

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Orris oil

Orris oil (orris butter or Beurre d'Iris) is an essential oil derived from irises, particularly Iris germanica.

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Orris root

Orris root (rhizoma iridis) is a term used for the roots Iris germanica and Iris pallida.

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Ovary

The ovary is an organ found in the female reproductive system that produces an ovum.

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Ovary (botany)

In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium.

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Passiflora incarnata

Passiflora incarnata, commonly known as maypop, purple passionflower, true passionflower, wild apricot, and wild passion vine, is a fast-growing perennial vine with climbing or trailing stems.

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Pedicel (botany)

A pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence.

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Peduncle (botany)

In botany, a peduncle is a stem supporting an inflorescence, or after fecundation, an infructescence.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Perfume

Perfume (parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives and solvents, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent.

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Perianth

The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals).

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Persephone

In Greek mythology, Persephone (Περσεφόνη), also called Kore ("the maiden"), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter and is the queen of the underworld.

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Petal

Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.

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Philip Hermogenes Calderon

Philip Hermogenes Calderon (Poitiers 3 May 1833 – 30 April 1898 London) was an English painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre.

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Plant stem

A stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant, the other being the root.

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Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, enabling later fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind.

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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Presby Memorial Iris Gardens

Presby Memorial Iris Gardens is a nonprofit, volunteer-run living museum specializing in iris flowers, located at 474 Upper Mountain Avenue, Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Rainbow

A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky.

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Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid

Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Spanish for Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid) is an 8 hectares (19.7684 acres) botanical garden in Madrid (Spain).

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Redox

Redox (short for reduction–oxidation reaction) (pronunciation: or) is a chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed.

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Reed bed

Reed beds are natural habitats found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions, and estuaries.

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Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (from script "mass of roots", from rhizóō "cause to strike root") is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

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Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962), who published as R. A. Fisher, was a British statistician and geneticist.

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Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

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Saint-Géry Island

Saint-Géry Island (île Saint-Géry, Dutch) was the largest island in the Senne (Zenne) river in Brussels, Belgium.

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Scouting

Scouting or the Scout Movement is a movement that aims to support young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society, with a strong focus on the outdoors and survival skills.

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Section (botany)

In botany, a section (sectio) is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species.

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Sedative

A sedative or tranquilliser is a substance that induces sedation by reducing irritability or excitement.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Sepal

A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Series (botany)

In botany and plant taxonomy, a series is a subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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St.

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Stamen

The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Stigma (botany)

The stigma (plural: stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.

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Subgenus

In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.

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Surface runoff

Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Terpene

Terpenes are a large and diverse class of organic compounds, produced by a variety of plants, particularly conifers, and by some insects.

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The Birds of America

The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States.

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Undecylenic acid

Undecylenic acid is an organic compound with the formula CH2.

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Variety (botany)

In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies but above that of form.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Viola (plant)

Viola (and) is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae.

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Vitamin C

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid and L-ascorbic acid, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement.

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Waste stabilization pond

Waste stabilization ponds (WSPs or stabilization ponds or waste stabilization lagoons) are ponds designed and built for wastewater treatment to reduce the organic content and remove pathogens from wastewater.

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Water pollution

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of Europe.

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William Rickatson Dykes

William Rickatson Dykes (4 November 1877 – 1 December 1925) was an amateur botanist who became an expert in the field of iris breeding and wrote several influential books on the subject.

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1753

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References

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