Iris capsules
Stinking Iris (Iris foetidissima), Starcross, Devon, England.
A relatively common iris in southern England and Wales in woodland, hedgebottoms, scrub and cliffs, especially on calcareous soils. According to the Flora Britannica "... it is also widely naturalised in churchyards. It will not have been introduced for its modest flowers, which are pallid purple or blue (or very occasionally yellow) and faintly cobwebbed with dark lines. Gladdon is taken into graveyards for the same reason it is grown in gardens, for its brilliant orange seeds, which lie in rows, like peas in a pod, on the open segments of the seed capsules all winter, gleaming against the evergreen leaf spears. They are frequent ingredients in winter gravetop bouquets and church flower arrangements."
See my other wild iris photos.
Iris capsules
Stinking Iris (Iris foetidissima), Starcross, Devon, England.
A relatively common iris in southern England and Wales in woodland, hedgebottoms, scrub and cliffs, especially on calcareous soils. According to the Flora Britannica "... it is also widely naturalised in churchyards. It will not have been introduced for its modest flowers, which are pallid purple or blue (or very occasionally yellow) and faintly cobwebbed with dark lines. Gladdon is taken into graveyards for the same reason it is grown in gardens, for its brilliant orange seeds, which lie in rows, like peas in a pod, on the open segments of the seed capsules all winter, gleaming against the evergreen leaf spears. They are frequent ingredients in winter gravetop bouquets and church flower arrangements."
See my other wild iris photos.