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The
Iris of the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel - in Hebrew) is a
white, very modest and small flower that supposed to be very abundant.
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However,
it has almost disappeared due to lack of specific reservation and
extensive urban developments.
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Aram-Naharayim iris has
almost disappeared due to urban growth. Luckily it has been
reserved next to Muslim cemetaries, and very few people
remember
it.
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The Gilboah Iris grows only on the Gilboah Mt, in its reservation, and
is in serious danger due to new settlements
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The swamp Iris is very rare because it needs swamps ecology. It
can be found in its reservation on the Golan heights' swamps.
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Nazareth
Iris Nazareth
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This iris grows only in Nazareth's area
and is endangered by extension of the old cemetery in the expense of
the reservation.
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This
iris is not Royal. It is small and abundant all over Israel
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The purple iris grows around the town of Ness-Ziona and
threatened by urban growth. One reservation has been exctint last
year under a building site.
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Although it is
protected in a Nature reservation next to Natanya, this Irus is
endangered by urban expansio |
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This
iris grows in the Negev on the Hills of Goral. It is endangered
by the extension of the railway to Beer-Sheeba
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Irus
Yerucham, or
"irus Petrana"
grows in the desert near a small town: Yerucham in
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It
is unique in its magic apparition in the midst of nowhere, its
reservation, for a short
while during March of every year.
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