They come in a range of colours between pale bluish lavender and deep reddish purple. The graduated tail is black, glossed with green and reddish purple. The bark is light brown, smooth, scaly, inner bark reddish purple. Various tones of "orchid" may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. "Warm grays" are colors that are noticeably brownish, pinkish grays, or reddish purple grays. The flowers are typically scarlet, crimson, bluish purple, reddish purple, or white. Iris lactea has a thick creeping rhizome, that is covered in reddish purple fibres. A reddish purple was the main opaque color. The fruit is a berry, greenish to reddish purple in colour, containing many black seeds. Maroon is a dark reddish purple or dark brownish red colour. Young stems and leaves are light reddish purple. The reddish purple stem carries several alternately arranged leaves. From violet, to dark blue, to blue, to a reddish purple colour. At the base of the umbel are leaflike green to reddish purple bracts. A lappet or frontal shield extends up over the forehead and is reddish purple.