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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Moraea MM 11-116

Seed parent: MM 99-00b (atropunctata X neopavonia)
Pollen parent: MM 99-00a (atropunctata X neopavonia)

An F2 cross between orange siblings. I once got a bright yellow flower from this cross, but mostly they're orange with some central black markings, like this one.

MM 11-116a. I like the precise look of the dots in this one. It's as if someone had used a technical pen on it.

MM 11-116b. Looks very much like the parents.

MM 11-116c. Hmmmm. The parents are supposed to be a cross between an orange flower and a white flower. So how did we end up with a mauve flower? Sometimes I suspect that M. loubseri was involved in 99-00.


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