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Monday, September 15, 2025

Moraea MM 21-101

Seed parent: MM 15-106c ((M. atropunctata x calcicola) x gigandra)
Pollen parent: MM 18-312a ((atropunctata x calcicola) x (villosa x tulbaghensis)) X (villosa x tulbaghensis) x villosa form d

This cross has two very attractive parents, but the offspring, alas, aren't all that impressive.




Moraea MM 21-97

Seed parent: MM 18-57 ((M. tripetala x bellendenii) X (villosa x tulbaghensis) x villosa d
Pollen parent: Unknown (open pollinated)

MM 21-97a. Nice markings. This looks a lot like the seed parent. Probably it's self-pollinated.


Sunday, September 14, 2025

Moraea MM 21-87

Seed parent: MM 18-162 (M. lurida x (villosa x tulbaghensis)) X aristata
Pollen parent: MM 18-161 (M. tripetala x bellendenii) X villosa

MM 21-87a. How interesting! This pretty little flower has no eye at all, but an attractive speckling of delicate purple freckles.I have no idea how the genetics produced this outcome, but I'd like to figure out how to breed more flowers like this one.




Moraea MM 21-22

Seed parent: MM 18-91b (M. bellendenii x aristata) X (atropunctata x calcicola) X (villosa x tulbaghensis)
Pollen parent: MM 13-89d (villosa x tulbaghensis) X villosa

MM 21-22a. Nice patterning around the eye, but the parents were much more colorful. 


Saturday, September 13, 2025

Moraea MM 20-329

Seed parent: MM 17-110a (M. 'Zoe' x atropunctata) X (M. 'Zoe' offspring x ((atropunctata? x neopavonia) x (neopavonia x villosa)))
Pollen parent: MM 17-63b (atropunctata x (atropunctata x calcicola)) X (atropunctata x (atropunctata x calcicola)) 

This is one of the weirdest Moraea hybrids I've ever raised. The spots have a metallic sheen on them, and look almost impressed into the surface of the flower, like craters.





Check out the warty lumps on the inner tepals.


Friday, September 12, 2025

Moraea MM 20-319

Seed parent: Moraea calcicola
Pollen parent: MM 13-38a (M. neopavonia X villosa)

Hmmmm, this is not what I would expect from a cross between an orange flower and a pale purple one.


Moraea MM 20-310

Seed parent: MM 17-10a (M. tripetala x calcicola) X ('Zoe' x atropunctata)
Pollen parent: MM 17-07a (gigandra x loubseri) X ((aristata x calcicola) x tulbaghensis)

These flowers look a lot like hybrids with M. villosa form o, but that's not in the ancestry of this cross. I suspect these plants were mislabeled.