Category: Ecology

This is about how daffodil and narcissus species relate to their environment.

Theory according to Dave

Last year I posted a theory about succession flowering in species narcissus. I theorized that some species had a succession of flowers to ensure that if the first did not have the conditions that enabled pollination then the second and…

Narcissus x xanthochlorus

  At October 15, 2009 Harold sent a photo to Daffnet of a flower from a cross ‘N. cavanillesii x N. viridiflorus’. He made this cross in 2003. In this year I did the same. Ten years  later I got…

N. x tuckeri

  During my trip to Spain in March I saw  N. x tuckeri for the first time. Leslie Tucker told me the site near Navas de S. Juan. Many N. x tuckeri grow there in meadows. It is a natural…

N. lusitanicus

Several people have asked me about the name I use. Alvarez and Fernandez Casas raised this plant to species level and applied the name lusitanicus a few years ago (2000). Before that it was called N. triandrus var. aurantiacus or…

more from France

Near Grasse, we found N. provincialis.  Interestingly, some have white perianths and some are all yellow. Mary Lou