The fertility of species and named daffodils.
N. cavanillesii flowered three days after a heavy rain in southern Spain. Today, one month later I earned the seeds in the picture. The different pollen parents influence the size of the seed grains. The cross N. cavanillesii x N. serotinus…
Hi At our Canberra Show Lawrence asked whether our triandus hybrids were fertile. A couple were still flowering so I pollinated them with pollen from our tall form of NTT. The two groups of seedlings that were pollinated all set…
Hi, everybody, When I was at John Reed’s this past year, I saw 2 different kinds of seed pods on naturalized N.t.t. — some were jumbo, oblong and squarish, the other form was much smaller and round, not really circular…
Different paperwhites flower here in Canberra from about April to September. Flowering time is influenced by both rainfall and temperature. A couple more paperwhite N. broussonetii seedlings have flowered here and these too have, at best, only slight fertility. The autumn…
Hi, I don’t like to do this, but I have some N. willkommii seed that I didn’t use when I planted my daffodil hybridized seeds this year. They are open pollinated and I feel they will be true to N.…
The capital letters indicate different chromosome sets. One example for such a cross is N. cantabricus x Emerald Sea. The seedlings are composed of one chromosome set of Sea Dream (N), one of N. viridiflorus (V), and one of N.…