The iris is both a flower and part of the eye. The flower originally comes from Europe and Asia. There are many different kinds of irises, and one kind is native to Japan. The Japanese iris is usually purple or white, and it grows in wet fields like rice does. June is a good time to go and see irises because they are in bloom. The iris is also the colored part of your eye. It is the circle around the black dot in the middle of the eye. When you say, “He has blue eyes,” you mean that his irises are blue. My irises are blue, but the irises of most Japanese are dark brown.    (116 words)

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