Mike, Very interesting & I don't find them ugly at all. Karl On Feb 23, 2015 7:32 PM, "Michael Mace" <michaelcmace@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, gang. > > > > Those of you who don't like hybrids, close your eyes. > > > > I wanted to report an interesting result with one of my Moraea hybrid > experiments: I've crossed a Moraea villosa and a Homeria. > > > > I didn't think that was possible because they are not all that closely > related (Homeria was formerly its own genus, and was fairly recently merged > into Moraea). Most of my experiments ended up not setting seeds, or were > clones of the Homerias. So I had given up. > > > > Then last weekend a couple of new flowers opened, and they were definitely > hybrids. They combine a yellow flower and a purple one, which makes brown. > So I wouldn't call these flowers beautiful. But they're very interesting, > know what I mean? > > > > You can see photos here: > > > > http://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2015/02/… > > > > Mike > > San Jose, CA (zone 9, min temp 20F / -7C) > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >