hom/crocos marron BB sp2

This accession combines two South African Iridaceae genera, Homeria (now in Moraea) and Crocosmia, difficult to tell apart before flowering from corm and foliage alone. Homeria/Moraea is a geophyte of the Cape's winter-rainfall regions, with ephemeral, iris-like flowers; Crocosmia, native to summer-rainfall regions of eastern and southern Africa, produces corms sometimes spreading by stolons, erect sword-shaped leaves, and arching spikes of tubular summer flowers, generally orange to red. In this plant, labelled 'sp2', flowers of a brown/chestnut hue have been noted, distinguishing it from other accessions in the batch. The precise genus remains to be confirmed at the next flowering.