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English

1. Acorus calamus
2. sweet sedge or sweet flag
3. Drug Sweetflag, Calamus Sweetflag, a wetland monocot grass plant, with small flowers of yellow color; the stems and roots can be used to make spicy and essential oil, or as a stomach supplement herb; there's a tradition in Dragon Boat Festival to tire them up with Chinese mugwort and put under the eave, in order to get rid of poisons and sickness ----unreviewed?
4. Japanese Iris, Iris ensata; a Japanese traditional flowering plant with flowers of purple, red purple and white coloursunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 菖蒲草，水菖蒲，多年生草本植物，生響水邊，地下有根莖，葉嘅形狀好似劍，花穗好似碌棍，花係細朵黃色；根莖可以做香料香油，又可整成健胃藥；端午節有習俗係將菖蒲葉同艾草捆埋一齊插響簷下，以除毒驅瘟unreviewed?
2. 花菖蒲，日本傳統開花植物，花係較大朵，有紫色、紫紅同白色unreviewed?

Examples

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  菖蒲色 (紫紅色系)

  color of Iris ensata