Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

Winter bulbocodiums

It has been a cold frosty winter here and many flowers are later than usual. The tazettas in the field are miserable. The paperwhites are miserable too but they seem a little more hardy. The viridiflorus hybrids in the field…

The generation of fertile allotetraploid hybrids of narcissus species by chromosome doubling

This spring I found many diploid pollen grains on one plant of Hawera and three plants of Fairy Chimes. These species hybrids were transformed with Oryzalin from diploids to tetraploids or mixoploids. More information you will find in the PDF file The…

Danger Zone 2W-P

Hello everyone A few years ago I was given a ‘starter pack’ of bulbs when I joined my local Daffodil Society.  One of the bags was of ‘Nynja’ 2Y-Y.  The first year these grew well and most flowered.  The second…

Canberra early May

Thanks everyone for the the show reports and pictures. We’ve had the first couple of touches of frost here. N. viridiflorus is flowering as are some of its second generation fertile hybrids. The bulbocodium season has begun. The triggers to…