Moraea thomasiae

This one blooms a bit earlier than most of the Peacock-related Moraea species: early February at my home in San Jose, CA. It's a very welcome flower when little else is in bloom. Mine have been gradually offsetting, so I get a couple more flowers every year.

These little plants generally do not set seeds when pollinated with the other Peacock Moraeas, but their pollen does appear to work sometimes on other species and hybrids. However, the resulting flowers look nothing like M. thomasiae. I'm not sure what is going on.

I like the precise dark veins on the tepals:

Moraea MM 14-160

Seed parent: Moraea neopavonia
Pollen parent: Moraea loubseri

Hmm, not the reddish flower I was hoping for.

Moraea MM 13-54

Seed parent: MM 03-07b
Pollen parent: Moraea villosa d

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Moraea MM 13-52

Seed parent: MM 10-38a
Pollen parent: MM 10-16c

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Moraea MM 13-44

Seed parent: MM 03-07a
Pollen parent: MM 10-02a