Keith Burton's photos with the keyword: Stinking Iris

The Stinking Iris plant gets its name from the faint smell of rotten meat which you get if you rub the leaves together . The berries are toxic to a lot of mammals including dogs and humans. If left, the berries will stay on the plant all through winter. I'm trying to eradicate them from the garden so I dig up the plants as soon as I find them. I obviously missed this one :-)

I'd never even heard of this plant until I spotted these berries whilst on a walk last week. After a bit of research I discovered they were the seed pods of a wild flower called Stinking Iris, named because apparently the flowers smell like meat that is slightly "off". Lovely! I decided not to keep any seeds for the garden.....................