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The English names walking iris, apostle's iris and apostle plant have been used for many species, regardless of the generic placement (e.g. for Trimezia gracilis, syn. Neomarica gracilis). New plantlets form at the end of the flower spikes; after flowering, the spikes fall over and a new plant grows, so the plant "walks".
Trimezia northiana, synonym Neomarica northiana, [1] also known as North's false flag [2] or walking iris, is a flowering plant, native to Brazil, with a rhizomatous rootstock, belonging to the iris family, Iridaceae.
Trimezia martinicensis is closely related to T. steyermarkii, [6] with which it has been widely confused. [7] Clive Innes describes T. martinicensis as having a brown mark at the base of each outer tepal, whereas T. steyermarkii has brownish-purple bands. [8]
Trimezia candida, synonym Neomarica candida, [3] also known as white walking iris, is species of flowering plant. It was first described by Emil Hassler and given the name Neomarica candida by Thomas Archibald Sprague . [ 4 ]
Iris giganticaerulea, the giant blue iris, is a species of iris, in the subgenus Limniris, in the series Hexagonae.It is a rhizomatous perennial, from northern America.It has long bright green leaves, very tall stems and one or two musky fragrant flowers in a range of blue shades (pale, bright, dark, lavender and violet) or rarely white.
Trimezia steyermarkii is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae, native to southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela. [1] Plants are up to 150 cm tall, with rhizomes up to 2–4 cm long and 2–3 cm wide; leaves are lanceolate, 60–150 cm long by 2 cm wide; flowers are yellow with brown spots.
Sub-irrigated planter (SIP) is a generic name for a special type of planting box used in container gardening and commercial landscaping. A SIP is any method of watering plants where the water is introduced from the bottom, allowing the water to soak upwards to the plant through capillary action . [ 1 ]
It is thought that Iris germanica could be a hybrid form of Iris aphylla and Iris variegata. [ 16 ] [ 25 ] : 18 It is one of the origin species (with Iris pumila ), for modern hybrids in the 'Border Bearded Irises' or 'Tall Bearded Irises' varieties, [ 14 ] : 124 due to its hardiness, [ 3 ] [ 66 ] it also has narrow foliage which is normally ...