It is named after a flower, the Yellow Iris ( " Iris pseudacorus " ), which was widespread in the Zenne / Senne valley, where Brussels is located.
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It is a robust crowlike bird averaging around in length, black or sooty grey-black in plumage with white undertail and wing patches, yellow irises, and a heavy bill.
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Katherine Dykes carried on her husband's plant breeding work, and in 1926, she named a yellow iris ( the first true yellow )'W . R . Dykes'in his honor.
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It has a blue body with a silvery underside, with dark-brown markings, mostly spots and curved lines; it has 13 venomous dorsal spines, seven anal spines, and silvery-yellow irises.
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In " Yellow Iris ", Poirot follows an anonymous phone call to a restaurant table laden with the favourite flower of a woman who died mysteriously four years before.
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Stone or marble showed it here and there, blanketed in grass among the yellow iris, with white columns laid on their sides by the Byzantines and used for a foundation.
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A startling array of wildflowers : 12-foot stands of wild rhododendrons; yellow irises and buttercups; foxgloves; petite wild orchids; and, of all things, miniature cotton plants, waving tiny white tufts.
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"There isn't an iris here I don't like, " she said in the garden's historic section, gazing at a delicate small purple, white and yellow iris called Gracchus, and dated 1884.
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The sexes are almost identical in colour, pale grey-brown above with browner wings and tail, and whitish below; the bill and legs are yellowish, and the eye has a yellow iris.
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The two garden together in a backyard bathed in southern light, where they are still discovering the old roses and yellow irises of whoever loved this piece of earth years ago.
