Description
A gorgeous Moraea making a fibrous-coated corm just 1cm. Its stem is 25-30cm tall with a single leaf. From the base arises a branched stem, the branching depending on vigour and water availability, with white flowers, each 3cm-long petal with a very prominent deep blue centre, this is pubescent and may, sometimes, be outlined with a darker shade of navy blue to near black. This is a stunning plant. This is readily grown in a deep pot of well-drained, sandy compost or in a sunny, well-drained spot outside in very favoured regions.
A rare native of Cape province in South Africa, teetering on the edge of extinction as a truly wild plant and known only from a handful of localities now where it is slowly being exterminated by urban sprawl, though it is apparently a naturalised alien in parts of Victoria, in Australia.
Introduced to our lists September 2018
Plants above are from the stock offered, picture2 (in gallery) by Abu Shawka with thanks, from Wikimedia used under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication