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Key points for the maintenance of Acorus calamus (Iris japonica)

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, Gladiolus (jade cicada, Japanese iris) scientific name: irisensata family genus: Iridaceae morphological characteristics: perennial perennial root water herbs. The rhizome is short and thick, and the fibrous roots are many and thin. The leaves are basic, linear, erect, with obvious middle ribs and smooth veins on both sides. The flower stem is often slightly higher than the foliage, with two flowers and large flowers.

The scientific name of Gladiolus (jade cicada, Japanese iris): iris ensata

Family and genus: Iridaceae

Morphological features: perennial perennial root tall water herbs. The rhizome is short and thick, and the fibrous roots are many and thin. The leaves are basic, linear, erect, with obvious middle ribs and smooth veins on both sides. The flower stem is often slightly higher than the foliage, with two flowers, large flowers, more than 15 cm in diameter, the flag petal is shorter than the vertical petal, yellow, bright red, blue, purple and so on, with blue, gray, black spots and stripes.

Ecological habits: like light; like dampness; cold resistance.

Florescence: from May to July.

Flower words: the news of love.

Garden use: suitable for planting in shady and wet forest edge, stream edge, riverside, pool edge, flower bed, flower border, cut flower.

Species identification: species of the same genus-Acorus tatarinowii (aquatic warbler tail) I. pseudacorus basal leaves are broadly sword-shaped, grayish green, with obvious ribs in the middle of the leaves, and have transverse reticular veins (which can be used as a point of identification with calamus when there is no flowering). The flower stem is often below the foliage, the flower diameter is 10 cm, the flower is yellow.

 
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