2 unknown Iris

[arisaema]

Could someone help me with a name for these? The first one is about 30cm/1 foot and was sowed as Iris tenax. The second is about 50-60cm, and showed up in a bed where I may have recycled some seed compost.

Thanks!

[WimB]

Hello,

the first one looks like a form of Iris ensata (I don't know which cultivar) and the second one looks more like Iris tenax

[arisaema]

Thanks Wim! I did a bit of googling, and found an ensata relative, Iris hookeri 'Monstrosa', which looks pretty close.

The standards on #2 look too small for tenax, I wonder if it could be yet another setosa, or possibly a wild form of ensata?

[WimB]

You're welcome,

The first one could indeed be Iris hookeri 'monstrosa'.
I think the second one is closer to Iris setosa ( http://www.stewo.no/I/Iris%20setosa%2026.jpg ) than Iris ensata. Normally Iris setosa is smaller than Iris ensata.

[Lvandelft]

Wim here is a 'normal' Iris hookeri

[WimB]

Luit, the first picture doesn't look like a "normal" Iris hookeri but it has a lot of resemblance to the "monster" form 

Thanks for the picture

[Paul T]

The first one looks like some of the more modern Iris sibirica breeding (by that I mean once they started getting into the more prominent standards, not just bigger falls etc).