Iris flowers

It's the big exotically seeming flower, which made the iris popular and admired. Not for nothing it is named after the Greek messenger of the gods, who bruited her messages travelling on a rainbow.

In order to understand irises better and to categorize them in groups by reference to their flower, on this site you can have a look at the most important components of an iris flower. If you try to comprehend those components by taking a real iris flower from your garden, the first breeding might be a lot easier to accomplish.

Components of an iris flower - petals(standards), style arm, stigma, anther, sepals(falls), beard - iriszucht.de

Components of an iris flower

Because the predominant feature of an iris is its flower, iris enthusiast and breeders graduate it into flower categories. There is a specific designation for every color combination. Some designations hark back to characteristic wild species (e.g. Iris variegata or Iris amoena) others were generated in the course of breeding history.

The Amoena - An iris with white standards and colored falls - iriszucht.de

The Amoena

White standards and falls in an arbitrary color constitute an amoena.

The Bitone - An iris that pairs two hues of one color in its flower - iriszucht.de

The Bitone

An iris with flowers in a color, that appears in two different hues on standards and falls is called bitone.

A blue bitone is especially called neglecta.

The Self - An monochrome iris flower - iriszucht.de

The Self

A monochrome iris is called self.

The Variegata - An iris with yellow standards and brown or red falls - iriszucht.de

The Variegata

If an iris has yellow standards and petals in hues from red to brown it is called variegata.

The Bicolore - An iris that pairs two different colors in its flower - iriszucht.de

The Bicolore

A bicolore pairs two different colors in one flower.

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