Re: ariticle on wild iris in Japan

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• Subject: [iris-species] Re: ariticle on wild iris in Japan
• From: "albee703" a*@aol.com
• Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:26:28 -0000

I looked up the term in Martindales reference library and had no 
translation. My wife says shobu means iris in Japanese. Kamayama has 
no relationship to a specific word and is just a name. Translation 
would be Kamayama iris. 

Many times the Japanes character has more meaning in Japanese than 
the English translation or so she tells me.   



--- In iris-species@yahoogroups.com, Kenneth Walker <kenww@a...> 
wrote:
>
> I found a nice article on the Japan Iris Society web site
> about wild iris in Japan
> 
>    http://www.kamoltd.co.jp/kyokai/English/wild_iris.html
> 
> I found it interesting that their name for Iris sanguinea var. 
violacea
> is "Kamayama shobu". Kamayama is the name under  which a
> a plant of Iris sanguinea brought from Japan by Jean Witt in
> 1968  is circulated. Does anyone know whether Kamayama has
> a particular meaning of if it is just a name?
> 
> Ken Walker
>







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