plant

Iris

Nature

Iris as a plant people have named and used. Message, rainbow edge, clear sight — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Iris is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists iris root among aromatic purgative and ointment drugs. A named iris in that handbook, not the eye-iris anatomy flatten and not a florist dump.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Iris is historically related to Wine.
In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, Spanish green tempered with pure wine takes a little sap of iris or cabbage or leek for shadows — iris sap is added into that wine temper.
from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century
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Iris is historically related to Honey.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, the leaves of iris or orris used with honey purge foul ulcers and stay running sores — iris leaves are dressed with that honey.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Iris is historically related to Green.
In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, Spanish green for books is tempered with pure wine, and a little sap of iris is added when shadows are wanted.
from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century
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Spanish green is historically related to Iris.
In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, Spanish green is tempered with pure wine for books, and a little sap of iris, cabbage, or leek is added when shadows are wanted.
from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century
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