Moraea crossed with a Homeria

Karl Church 64kkmjr@gmail.com
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:48:19 PST
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.
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> Those of you who don't like hybrids, close your eyes.
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> I wanted to report an interesting result with one of my Moraea hybrid
> experiments: I've crossed a Moraea villosa and a Homeria.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> You can see photos here:
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> http://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2015/02/…
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> Mike
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> San Jose, CA (zone 9, min temp 20F / -7C)
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