This volume was first published in 1997, providing the first comprehensive, botanically detailed and up-to-date survey of this beautiful group of plants since publication of The Genus Iris by W. R. Dykes. Following the pattern of the original Dykes monograph, botanical details, cultivation suggestions and general comments are supplied, and the work is generously illustrated with accurate line drawings, colour pictures of unusual species and distribution maps. This survey includes all of the species described so far and takes into account the many changes in classification which have taken place in the group. Information scattered in the literature is brought together in one volume to provide an authoritative reference for professional botanists and growers, and a mine of useful information for amateur gardeners and iris enthusiasts. A 2010 preface has been written especially for the re-issue of this important text.
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Review of the hardback: ' ... useful, distilled and succinct ... Contributors to this book include most of the authors working on and growing irises in the United Kingdom ... as well as some from abroad ... It should please gardeners and botanists alike.' Stephen Anderton, The Horticulturalist
Review of the hardback: ' ... the Guide is an achievement to be celebrated and should be a standard reference work for many years'. The Hardy Plant Society
Review of the hardback: ' ... a beautifully produced book which will no doubt be of interest of keen Iris growers everywhere ... a valuable publication for the identification of species in this wonderful genus'. Richard Wilford, Bentham-Moxon Trust
Review of the hardback: '... clearly and simply written with abundant useful information'. Douglas Darnowski, Plant Science Bulletin
Review of the hardback: '... a very consciously written result of a criticla sutdy of literature, synthesised with systematic, planned, long time collected personal experience and continuous mutual exchange of experience of authors belonging to a wide range of professions - from pure scientists to keen amateur gardenerrs ... The Guide to Species Irises is a very important manual for anybody who will work seriously with this genus and a resource of extremely valuable garden plants - one of the basic perennials in the moderate climate of all parts of the world.' M. Blazek (Pruhonice), Biologia Plantarum
Review of the hardback: ' ... the Guide is an achievement to be celebrated and should be a standard reference work for many years'. The Hardy Plant Society
Review of the hardback: ' ... a beautifully produced book which will no doubt be of interest of keen Iris growers everywhere ... a valuable publication for the identification of species in this wonderful genus'. Richard Wilford, Bentham-Moxon Trust
Review of the hardback: '... clearly and simply written with abundant useful information'. Douglas Darnowski, Plant Science Bulletin
Review of the hardback: '... a very consciously written result of a criticla sutdy of literature, synthesised with systematic, planned, long time collected personal experience and continuous mutual exchange of experience of authors belonging to a wide range of professions - from pure scientists to keen amateur gardenerrs ... The Guide to Species Irises is a very important manual for anybody who will work seriously with this genus and a resource of extremely valuable garden plants - one of the basic perennials in the moderate climate of all parts of the world.' M. Blazek (Pruhonice), Biologia Plantarum
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This 1997 volume provided the first comprehensive, botanically detailed and up-to-date survey of this group of plants since publication of The Genus Iris by W. R. Dykes. It includes all of the species described so far and takes into account changes in classification which have taken place in the group.
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The iris is among the most ancient and valued of cultivated plants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bracteole green, juno treatment, bracteole membranous, standards paler than the falls, blade lingulate, pollen cream, white signal patch, visible internodes, becoming spaced, bulb tunics, bulb frame, spathe valves, stigma triangular, narrow haft, tunics papery, oncocyclus irises, sheathing the tube, obliquely triangular, stigma bilobed, orbicular blade, tube averaging, few bulblets, juno group, style crests, perianth tube Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Description Rhizome, Description Bulb, Flowering April, Description Leaves, Flowering May-June, Flowering March-April, Synonym Juno, Description Plant, Distribution China, Pamir-Alai Mountains, Flowering June-July, Habitat Stony, Observations Found, Habitat Dry, Habitat Rocky, Paul Furse, Description Rootstock, Wendelbo Distribution, Brian Mathew, New Zealand, Distribution Endemic, Distribution Israel, Mathew Distribution, Observations There, Seeds D-shaped New!
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The iris is among the most ancient and valued of cultivated plants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bracteole green, juno treatment, bracteole membranous, standards paler than the falls, blade lingulate, pollen cream, white signal patch, visible internodes, becoming spaced, bulb tunics, bulb frame, spathe valves, stigma triangular, narrow haft, tunics papery, oncocyclus irises, sheathing the tube, obliquely triangular, stigma bilobed, orbicular blade, tube averaging, few bulblets, juno group, style crests, perianth tube Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Description Rhizome, Description Bulb, Flowering April, Description Leaves, Flowering May-June, Flowering March-April, Synonym Juno, Description Plant, Distribution China, Pamir-Alai Mountains, Flowering June-July, Habitat Stony, Observations Found, Habitat Dry, Habitat Rocky, Paul Furse, Description Rootstock, Wendelbo Distribution, Brian Mathew, New Zealand, Distribution Endemic, Distribution Israel, Mathew Distribution, Observations There, Seeds D-shaped New!
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- The Genus Iris by William Rickatson Dykes on 7 pages
- Flora of Turkey, Volume 7: Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Vol. 7 by P. H. Davis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Flora Europaea, Vol. 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) by D. A. Webb on page 54, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- World of Irises by Bee Warburton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Iris of China by James W. Waddick in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Irises: A Gardener's Encyclopedia by Claire Austin in Back Matter
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