Irises: Iris class, 1 by Oldgardenrose

Oldgardenrose wrote:
Thought it would be interesting to a lot of people reading these iris threads to break the complete
plant down into individual parts and have one of the serious amateur/professional growers take a
part and give a description of form and function. There are lots of questions asked, some of which
become lost in picture presentations etc.

I chose SPATHE since there were some questions and explanations on other threads. Just happens
some of my oldies are about to bloom. They have a different spathe than the newer irises.

To me, in simple terms, the spathe is the covering of the bloom before it expands into the beginning
of a blossom.

Spathe of an old noid I have planted in a temp bed.

This message was edited Apr 29, 2009 7:54 PM