Wiki Additions - Moraea
Mary Sue Ittner (Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:50:00 PDT)

Hi,

I've added some more Moraea pictures from Cameron McMaster and Rod Saunders
to the wiki. Most of them are summer rainfall species, photographed by
Cameron in habitat on some of his trips, some found in the Drakensberg.

I added additional photos of Moraea albicuspa and Moraea alticoloa and a
new species to the wiki, Moraea alpina.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

I added additional photos of Moraea brevistyla
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

This next one, Moraea insolens, is a very rare species found near Caledon.
This is the only one from the winter rainfall area, often not seen unless
there has been a fire. This is from a scanned slide of Rod's so don't know
when it was last seen and don't know if anyone grows it. It's really
beautiful. I think Cameron has just written an article about it in the
weekly newspaper column he writes for farmers so if he reads this he might
want to tell us more.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

New species to the wiki Moraea modesta, a short species with small flowers
that blooms before the leaves
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Additional pictures of Moraea trifida
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

New species Moraea vigilans was added. When I was trying to find out more
about it since it was newly named in 2000 and isn't in my Moraea book, I
found a nice description in one of my IBSA bulletins that also had a
description of Moraea vespertina named at the same time. We had pictures of
M. vespertina on the wiki, but didn't know much about it except it opened
very late in the day and closed several hours later (not doubt the reason
it was named as it was and was not discovered by early plant explorers). So
I added text for it as well.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Nhu recently broke up the Hippeastrum page since it was getting very long
and added a table. He chose a few pictures of some of the species to add to
the table page to make it more attractive and I really liked the way that
looked. I decided to do that for Moraea when I was adding the new species
to the table. It was very challenging to pick since there are so many
species and great pictures to choose from. I decided to do six pictures of
some of the subgroups (Galaxia, Gynandriris, Hexaglottis, Homeria) and six
pictures from the Moraea subgroup. If you want to check out my choices:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Mary Sue