Moraea finished
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:17:12 PDT)

Hi,

I think (I hope) I have finally finished my Moraea project that I started
mid May.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
It has taken much longer than I anticipated as I kept getting more pictures
to add of new species. I stopped announcing what I was doing since I was
getting so little feedback although those of you who check the recent
changes may have noticed.
I added a lot more of Cameron McMaster's pictures of Moraea species, both
from the Eastern Cape where he used to live and from the Overberg, the area
where he now lives. New species now pictured on the wiki are Moraea
albicuspa, M. anomala, M. cooperi, M. trifida, and M. virgata (Hexaglottis
group.) Also John Manning kindly helped me sort out the Homeria group
species we saw in South Africa so there are lots of species in that group
added that were not previously illustrated on the wiki. This group is not
a very popular group, but there certainly are some lovely flowers with
interesting markings.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Even though we had quite a number of Moraea lurida pictures already, a
recent CD from Cameron had pictures of some with more variations and I just
couldn't resist adding a few of them. This species is so variable. I've
never figured out why when I grew my seed from Silverhill which Rachel
promised me was collected from many different plants they all turned out to
look the same.

Finally at the IBSA symposium Bob Werra gave a talk on Moraeas, his
favorite genus, showing slides of some of his plants. He mostly grows the
Moraea subgroup Moraeas and not the genera sunk into this genus later. He
grows them in Ukiah, California and probably grows more of them than anyone
in South Africa. He handed out a summary of his experiences with this genus
and has kindly agreed to let me add it to the wiki. There is a link from
the main Moraea page.

I hope the next genus I tackle won't have so many species.

Mary Sue