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.
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