Pollen parent: MM 18-322a (tripetala x villosa h) X ((aristata x villosa) x neopavonia)
Very interesting. The seed parent is a cream-colored flower with concentric bands of color in the center. The pollen parent is white with a mostly orange center, and it's also one of the tallest and most vigorous hybrids I have, with lots of buds and flowers that are unusually long-lasting. I have been making dozens of crosses with it, just to inject that vigor into the mix.
With this particular cross, I was hoping for a very floriferous plant with rainbow colors in the middle. I didn't quite get that. But these flowers are elegant looking, which is nice. And although the plant didn't make a lot of buds, its individual flowers lasted for about a week each, quite a bit longer than the usual 3-4 days. That's why you see two flowers together in the last photo -- the second one opened while the first one was still in bloom. That's unusual for this subgenus of Moraea.
MM 21-156a
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