Last year I mentioned on the list that I'd seen a couple of unusual color forms of Moraea tricolor. The flowers showed up in a pot of Moraea tricolor seedlings that were given to me by Bob Werra, the dean of Moraea growers in the US (thanks, Bob!). The corms had not yet bloomed for Bob, so when they came up in purple and orange rather than the usual pink, Bob and I were both surprised. This year several more of them have bloomed, with colors ranging from yellow-orange to a kind of a pale mauve. Bob thought they might be accidental hybrids, and I'm still investigating that possibility. But they don't look like my other hybrids. Somebody else suggested they might be M. papilionacea, but I grow those as well, and the flower shapes are quite different. Other than the color, these plants look exactly like plants of M. tricolor. Goldblatt's book says M. tricolor can rarely be found in yellow and purple, so maybe these are just natural color forms. If any of the Moraea experts out there have any ideas, please speak up. I am trying to build up my stock of these plants so I can share them. Bob gets first dibs, but after that I hope to share these on the BX. It'll take several years, so in the meantime, here's how they look: http://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2014/02/… tricolor.html Mike San Jose, CA