Description: A deciduous perennial herbaceous geophyte with a corm that can grow up till 25cm high. The corm is white, fleshy and covered with brown, hair-like scales. There are one oblong, linear or slightly twisted, fine edged and smooth leaf that can grow to 25cm long. The flowers are light blue, yellow or white with darker yellow markings, with or without brown marks around the yellow markings, can grow to 3.5cm in diameter. Flowers September. This photo was taken by Herman Burger.
Description: A deciduous perennial herbaceous geophyte with a stem corm that can grow up till 25cm high. The corm is white, fleshy and covered with brown, hair-like scales. There is only one leaf which is oblong, smooth, fine edged, can grow to 40cm long and 8mm in diameter. The flowers are blue with a white centre and yellow marks on the petals, can grow to 4cm in diameter. Flowers September.
Description: A deciduous perennial herbaceous geophyte with a corm that can grow up till 7cm high. The corm is white, fleshy and covered with brown, hair-like scales. There is only on cripade, or twisted leaf. The flowers are white with darker yellow markings, with or without brown marks around the yellow markings, can grow to 3cm in diameter. Flowers September.
Description: A deciduous perennial herbaceous geophyte with a corm that can grow up till 50cm high. The corm is white, fleshy and covered with brown, hair-like scales. There are several linear fine edged and smooth leaves that can grow to 15cm long. The flowers are blue with darker blue and yellow markings, can grow to 3.5cm in diameter. Flowers September.
Description: A deciduous perennial herbaceous geophyte with a corm that can grow up till 25cm high. The corm is white, fleshy and covered with brown, hair-like scales. There are several oblong to linear or slightly twisted, fine edged or andulated and smooth leaves that can grow to 15cm long. The flowers are white with darker yellow markings, with or without brown marks around the yellow markings, can grow to 3.5cm in diameter. Flowers September. This photo was taken by Herman Burger
Description: Perennial herbaceous geophyte that can grow up to 10cm high with a corm. The single leaf is crispate, sometimes curled and smooth, can grow to 15cm long. The flowers are bright yellow with white centre and lots of small brown dots at the base of the petals. Flowers grows to 2.5cm in diameter. Flowers September.
Description: Help, such a pretty flower. Is this Moraea natalensis? Said to open late in morning (exposure time 11:54)and not last long. Has a single rounded stem. Last photo shows plant lost in grass and what looks like a Watsonia in front.
Description: Thanks for the help, and I hope you won't mind one more unidentified Moraea found in captivity. This one has me stumped. It is a summer-dormant, spring-blooming Moraea species that has a white flower prominently speckled in blue. It would be a very striking flower if it weren't so darned small. The plant has a single leaf attached near ground level. It came to me from a friend who grew it as Moraea longiaristata. But that species is supposed to have a long straight inner tepal.
Description: This is an unidentified Moraea species grown in captivity. I couldn't find any info on whether iSpot accepts listings from captivity, but I don't know of a better place to ask for identification help, so here goes, and my apologies if this is inappropriate. I am a species bulb enthusiast and received this from a friend marked as "Moraea incurva." He had no locality info. It's a spring-blooming, summer-dormant bulb with a single leaf. Although the flower color and size look right for M. incurva, this flower has almost no inner tepals, whereas M. incurva is supposed to have prominent ones.
Description: Noting the correspondence by CREW in the March 2013 Veld and Flora, that M. loubseri is now practically extinct in the wild, I thought it interesting to show this specimen in cultivation (treated with benign neglect) which flowers virtually every year in August(these two pics are a year apart).
