Irises generally bloom in late spring and early summer. Some produce flowers for a second time in late summer. The leaves of an iris plant are generally tall, narrow, and sword-shaped. Irises are perennial plants and grow from rhizomes or bulbs, depending on the species. I've described for...
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26 Interesting Facts about Heterochromia DanNovember 11, 2024 Heterochromia is a fascinating condition characterized by differences in the coloration of the eyes, where an individual may have two distinctly different-colored irises or variations of color within a single iris. It is a rare trait and...
With the scientific name Iris x germanica, Bearded Iris is a rhizomatous and perennial herb which grows upto 120 cm high by forming a large clump of 30 cm wide. The homogenous rhizomes are creeping on soil surface and are usually light brown, many branched, smooth measuring 1.2 to 2 cm i...
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4)You can tell a lot about an elephant by looking at their tusks! Elephant tusksnever stop growing, so enormous tusks can be a sign of an old elephant. Both male and female African elephants grow tusks, but onlymaleAsian elephantsgrow them. A tusk-less adult elephant is likely to be a...
Flowers are a typical iris shape, 3 to 4 inches across, blue to blue-violet, infrequently red-purple and rarely pale blue. The deeper colored edges of the 3 large, drooping petal-like sepals fade toward the base, with a pale yellowish to greenish spot in the throat and prominent blue-pu...
shaped foliage as its cousins in the iris family. While the leaves will remind you of iris, crocosmia flowers, which open up in mid-summer, are similar in appearance to freesia. Star-shaped blossoms sprout at the ends of slender branching stems that rise up about three feet from the ...
8. Fragrant Dragon Boat Flowers: The fragrant iris flower, also known as the dragon boat flower, blooms during this time and is often used to decorate boats and houses. 9. Festival Artwork: Traditional Chinese paintings, figurines, and lanterns depicting dragons and festival sce...
Herbs commonly used by midwives include Barrenwort, Stinking Iris, Crow soap, Snake Plant, Wake Robin, and many more. Families and villages obtained medical advice from midwives, who was usually without a degree. Executions—generally burning at the stake—claimed millions of lives, 85% of which...