EPPO Global Database

Iris domestica(BMCCH)

Overview
Code created in: 1996-10-28

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: BMCCH
  • Preferred name: Iris domestica
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Goldblatt & Mabberley

Notes

India, Himalayas, Bangladesh, Indochina (Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam), Malesia (Malaya, Philippines), China (including Tibet, Taiwan), Japan (southern Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), Korea, Russian Far East. Cultivated as an ornamental and medicinal plant. Introduced in central and eastern USA, Caribbean, Venezuela


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Belamcanda chinensis (Linnaeus) de Candolle

Common names
Name
Language
shè gān Chinese
射干 Chinese
blackberry lily English
leopard-flower English
hi-ôgi Japanese
ヒオウギ Japanese
ヒオウギ Japanese
beom bu chae Korean
범부채 Korean
lírio-dourado Portuguese