#stinkingiris

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 3 June 2020

Ideal for growing in dry shade the evergreen perennial, Iris foetidissima (stinking iris, roast beef plant, scarlet-seeded iris, stinking gladwin) is a native of UK woodlands. The major display is not the delicate flowers but the resulting large pods which open to show bright orange-red seeds, which persist through the winter. The leaves when torn have the distinctive smell of marmite or bacon.

Jill Raggett

[coffeenuts]

Iris foetidissima seed heads - Wild Iris with more Autumn colour by favmark1 https://flic.kr/p/2jQtYD2

[hortushorrei]

Roast-beef plant. It's a wild iris with a crazy name. Iris foetidissima doesn't smell as fetid as its Latin name would have you believe, but if you rip up a leaf, you can get a whiff of someting kind of beefy. I totally smell beefy stock cube. Common names include stinking iris, gladdon, Gladwin iris, and stinking gladwin. Native to most of western Europe, Ireland, England, France, Italy, Greece, Spain and down to N. Africa.#rhsawardofgardenmerit #irisfoetidissima #roastbeef #nativespecies #lamacchinafissa #woodlandgardens #woodlandplants #stinkingiris #interestingplants (presso La Macchina Fissa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAcqk64AnXN/?igshid=82w5mvh1wjte

[wildfloweroftheday]

28 December 2018

Gladdon - Iris foetidissima

Affectionately known as Stinking Iris - the smell is compared to whiffy meat (I didn’t notice it!). The bright red fruits released at this time of year are more eye-catching than the large but dull-coloured flowers of summer.

The pods split into three.

The parallel veins in the leaves show that this is a monocot plant.

A partly opened pod.

Pods after fruits have been released.