A contrast to the beautiful flower pictures from new Zealand in recent times.
This little monstrosity appeared on a 3 inch stem about a week or in a row of N. bulbocodium OP seedlings. .Pity a slug found it before I did! It would seem that a bee or insect carried pollen from a little trumpet species or miniature cultivar as both characteriscts are obvious. It has more substantial (not much!) perianth segments and a trumpet like cup which the slug tried to reduce to a small cup. It also has a long neck from the N. bulbocodium and the pistil is grossly exserted from the bulbo. but it is straight as in trumpets. The anthers are curved like those in a bulbocodium.
Not many could love this little geezer but I welcomed it at this time of year and look forward to the flower from an emerging bud beside it.
Brian