But I also wonder if they're possibly hybrids. I self-pollinated them to see if they'll breed true, but in the meantime, what do you think?
This is the form of M. tricolor that you usually see in cultivation. It's lustworthy, even though the flowers are small (maybe an inch across) and last only a single day.
Here's the "Moraea tricolor" that bloomed this week. The inner tepals are purple, the outer ones are white with a bit of purple veining in them. If this is part of the species, it's a lot more variable than I realized.
This is another flower from the same pot. It looks like a pale form of the typical M. tricolor, but if you look closely you'll see the inner tepals are a bit darker than the outer ones. So I wonder about this one too...
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