In 2002 I made the back-cross between Emerald Sea and N. viridiflorus, using a flat small flowered form of the species originally collected in Morocco. In some respects the offspring are rather like a larger form of the species and most have reflexing tepals. I showed a flatter clone that flowered about a month ago. They all are a little variable in the extent of sepal twisting. The best clone, not pictured here, has slightly broader tepals that have very little twisting. All have the pale bluey-green coloration seen in the pictures below.
cheers, Harold
Harold,
Love the colors in both! Would you explain the wonderful powdery hazy blue green found in some N. viridiflorus? I’ve only seen it in a handfull. Is this glacous color widespread in the wild?
Thanks,
Steve
Steve:
There is a range of greens in the wild, from yellow- green, through deep green and to grey green. No one seems to have looked at the pigments in the flowers but I suspect that it was more to do with the waxy cuticle on the tepal epidermis than actual pigments; similar to the “blue haze” inside some coronas of standard pink daffodils.
Harold
Thanks Harold!
I’ll have to pay much closer attention to the pinks now. I like the term “Blue Haze” although it is reminiscent of either a designer mind altering drug or a car wax. :-)
Steve