Hi, Can someone please try and id this plant from the following description: I think it's a NZ native Lush green flax like leaves (but finer) Grows in clumps with a small bulb like root (but it doesn't die back like a bulb) A clump is around 60x60cm Pretty small purple flower just emerging which looks like a mini iris.
Any ideas!
loadmaster2,
Oct 28, 5:03pm
Do you have a picture!
antoniab,
Oct 28, 5:09pm
First made me think of Dianella nigra but they have white flowers and purple berries the orchid Thelymitra is purple but not really a flax habit - are you sure its an NZ native!
photo coming up. am starting to think its a japanese iris.
loadmaster2,
Oct 28, 6:15pm
Looks like a day lilly to me
mokaumoi,
Oct 28, 6:36pm
It is an iris. Not a native.
piquant,
Oct 28, 6:48pm
Iris foetidissima.Spent flower heads develop into split capsules that reveal scarlet berries in autumn and winter.
jodie-mike,
Oct 28, 6:48pm
Hi, thanks Mokamoi, so is it a Japanese Iris! I have googled their pictures and it looks similar.
I have transplanted some clumps of them to around the garden and they are looking very sad, yellowing leaves and limp on the dirt. Do I give them a good chop back to ground level you think! Or just mulch and fertilize then leave alone to recover!
I moved them a few months ago.
jodie-mike,
Oct 28, 6:49pm
YES piquant, it does get berries in autumn / winter. I had forgotten. Thanks, I will do some more research now.
gilligee,
Oct 28, 6:56pm
No it is not a Japanese iris. They are larger, higher and more dramatic looking.
It is Iris foetidissima - the bane of my life! Spreads like wildfire. Weird smelling leaves when they are torn. I consider it a weed, even as pretty as the berries are.
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