Bearded Irises-2012

[Tom Waters]

My second-year clumps of I. pumila "clausii"

[Tom Waters]

And a yellow and brown form of Iris pumila.

[Angelo Porcelli]

Thanks Gerhard, I think you are correct,I will label it as Iris bicapitata.

Cheers.

It could be the classic form of Iris bicapitata indeed. Where did you get from? Strange that the seller didn't know to have it. I have ditribuited this species for the first time few years ago, I don't think it has turned to be a so common plant to be sold without name

[ruweiss]

Two plants of Iris pumila from Georgia are now flowering
in the frame:

[ronm]

Lovely Rudi 

[Lesley Cox]

Those are both very nice plants Rudi. I like to see such variation in wild forms. The colours and different marks are beautiful, the forms too.

[Melvyn Jope]

Iris reichenbachii from Thrace, Northern Greece.

[Melvyn Jope]

Other colour forms of Iris reichenbachii found in Northern Greece.

[Maggi Young]

Beautiful Iris, Melvyn.... but did you happen to spot the strange "stuff" on the stem  in Iris Reichenbachia B pic??

Looks like eggs of some sort.....

[Melvyn Jope]

Yes I did and wondered if they were butterfly eggs?

[Maggi Young]

A distinct possibility - such things are a mystery to me.....

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks for the reichenbachii pictures Melvyn, fascinating.

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely form Melvyn. Can you go back in a few days and see what they hatch into? How exciting it would be to have a lot of little larvae then pupae then butterflies hatching out. I'd happily sacrifice some iris flowers for that.

[Lesley Cox]

I've asked Anthony Darby to have a look and say what he thinks they are.

[Anthony Darby]

Not butterfly eggs as very few butterflies lay eggs in batches and I don't know of any that feed on iris leaves. Don't look like moth eggs either. If there were fewer of them I would say shield bug?

Further thought: could really only be moth eggs.