Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

Em Sea sdlg .

  Another  bulb  I  recieved  from  John  Hunter  was  this  interesting  Viridiflorus  sdlg  J A H  sdlg  23 / 88 (  Rosewyn x Gay  Challenger )  x  Viridiflorus .. No  luck  with  pistil  or  stamen  this  year  but  was  assured  that …

Emerald Sea

Hi  Daffnetters, Another  frosty  morning  with  a  fine  day  after  we  warm  up  .. I  was  very  fortunate  to  recieve  from  John  Hunter two  bulbs  of  Emerald  Sea . They  have  only  been  in  the  pot  for  about  6  weeks …

Seed Question

All, A short time ago someone referred to white appendages(I forget the exact wording) attached to seeds of N. cyclamineus. This is common and I remembered that these were strophioles but I wanted to check the spelling and precise definition. It’s amazing…

Seedlings 4

  The second picture is an older seedling of Honeybird x N. hedraeanthus (NHH). This year I found out, that it is fertile. It has unreduced pollen and gives with N. hedraeanthus (HH) allotetraploid daffodils of the type NNHH which are fertile.…

Seedlings 3

Wilf and All,   Crosses of standard daffodils with N. tazetta patulus are possible, but I found till now only Ufo, Loch Coire and Actaea to produce some seeds. An extraordinary  high number of these seedlings has fertile pollen. This…

Seedlings 2

  This is ((Pontresina x (Edna Earl x Rahee)) x N. assoanus (NNA) with fertile pollen NA of one chromosome set N and one A from N. assoanus. I didn’t measure the flower diameter but I think it is a little smaller than 50…