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Iris sari

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Schott ex Baker. 1C. About 15-30cm in height. Leaves strongly falcate to almost straight, 3-9mm wide. Flowers 7-10cm across, creamy to yellowish or greenish with brownish-purple to crimson veining, the falls with a signal patch or rich crimson or brown; both falls and standard may be more or less ruffled, late spring. Turkey, on stony hills at 1000-2250m. Alpine house, fairly easy to grow.

a, I. iberica; b, I. paradoxa; c, I. sari;