Moraea MM 15-112

Seed parent: Moraea tripetala
Pollen parent: Moraea neopavonia Summerfield form

MM 15-112a. What a weird, interesting looking plant. The tepals are a glowing peachy color, fading to almost white around the very dark blue eyes. There's also a faint yellow halo around each eye. This plant begs for some follow-on crosses.

Here's a slightly different sibling (I think). I haven't assigned a letter to it.

Moraea MM 15-110

Seed parent: Moraea longiaristata form a, with blue spots
Pollen parent: Moraea thomasiae

This is a very interesting little mystery. I've raised several hybrids with M. thomasiae as the apparent pollen parent, but in all cases the flowers have looked nothing like it. This one is clearly a hybrid of some sort, since at least one of the plants doesn't look exactly like its seed parent, but I can't see any M. thomasiae characteristics in either of them. If anyone has thoughts I'd welcome them.

MM 15-110a. This one looks a lot like the seed parent.

Occasionally a Moraea plant will produce a flower with extra tepals. That's what you are seeing below. It seems to be a random thing and usually doesn't reoccur the next year, although I suspect some plants are more susceptible to it than others.

MM 15-110b

These don't have a letter assigned to them. The first has curved inner tepals, the second one straight.

Moraea MM 15-108

Seed parent: Moraea longiaristata with blue spots
Pollen parent: Moraea neopavonia Summerfield form

The 'Summerfield' variety of M. neopavonia has especially wide inner tepals, and you see that echoed in these flowers. Compare them to the very similar cross MM 15-105.

MM 15-108a

MM 15-108b

MM 15-108c

Moraea MM 15-105

Seed parent: Moraea neopavonia with blue eye
Pollen parent: Moraea longiaristata with blue spots

As often happens, the look of M. neopavonia dominates this cross, without any hint of the blue dots fro the pollen parent. It'll be interesting to see if the dots emerge in next-generation crosses made with these plants. For a similar cross see MM 15-108.

MM 15-105a. There's an interesting jagged edge to the eyes.

MM 15-105b

I haven't assigned a letter to these yet.

Just a few spots on this one...

Moraea MM 15-90

Seed parent: Moraea villosa form H
Pollen parent: MM 11-72a (M. tulbaghensis X villosa)

The orange color of M. tulbaghensis usually dominates when you cross it with M. villosa. This is one of a series of crosses in which I combined one of those tulbaghensis-villosa hybrids with a species M. villosa, to see if I'd get a wider variety of colors.

MM 15-90a. And the answer is...kinda'. This is a purpley flower with some orange undertones.

MM 15-90b

GK 1529. Same cross, grown by Garry Knipe.

MM 15-90d