Japanese iris

From Japanese +‎ iris.

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

Japanese iris (plural Japanese irises)

1. An group of iris flower species from East Asia.^[1] 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.