Month: February 2016

Narcissus cyclamineus crosses and their fertility

  The plants in the pictures are composed of one-third standard daffodil, one-third N. cyclamineus, and one-third N. jonquilla in the first and N. viridiflorus in the second case. They are triploid with three different chromosome sets and should therefore…

An early April Fools Joke ?

The Joke is on me, I was  sure fooled, this is the flower we were discussing  2 days ago about it being a division six.  No discussion now, no it’s not a 6. It’s interesting that it reversed the normal procedure of…

Now in flower

I have shown this seedling before. It is a very slow increaser but this year it has made three stems. The cross is from N. lusitanicus by a green viridflorus seedling. The three stems in the picture are off different…

Arrowhead seedlings.

The miniature seedlings (Arrowhead x green sdlng.) that I posted on January 28th have now matured and as Mary Lou surmised, the all green flower has faded significantly although one can still see traces of the green flush in the…