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Another Unknown Daffodil – Needs a name

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The picture below was taken by my brother of daffodils that he rescued from a home that was torn down in 1941 when the Army bought the land East of Ft. Smith Arkansas to add to the military reservation.  He took it with his cell phone.  So I hope you can see it.  He says it is white with a small yellow cup.  Looks like a Div 3 to me.

 

 

9 comments for “Another Unknown Daffodil – Needs a name”

  1. Clay:

    Hard to see, but isn’t it Twin Sisters or is the cup too large?

    Regards, Drew

  2. Clay, it’s Merry Bells— A close-up of the flower would help. It’s a triandrus. Historic.

  3. Thanks Drew and Jason,
    I raise Twin Sisters so I would know that one if it were.
    Merry Bells could be the name. However it was introduced in 1956 and this
    daffodil comes from an old homesite that was abandoned and the house torn
    down in 1941. My brother also said it was a single headed stem in his
    yard. So I’m not sure that it is a Div 5. When I asked him for a close up
    he said, “you will have to wait until next year. The flowering season is
    over and the blooms have died.”

    Are there any other choices?

    thanks for all the help.

    Clay

  5. Indeed it could be x tenuoir—the florets look large, but it could be happy. And it better fits the timeframe. Merry Bells often flowers with only one or two florets per stem.

  6. Ross, I had N. x tenuous on the unknown daffodil before, and it was
    confirmed. However this one is not it. I have N. x tenuous blooming in my
    garden now and the flowers are much small and even when N. x tenuous blooms
    all yellow, on mine one of the blooms fades white with yellow cup.

    I thank everyone that commented. However the mystery is solved. Drew was
    correct and I was wrong. With the original picture sent to me by my
    brother I couldn’t identify it. He originally said he didn’t have a close
    up, but then sent me a close up and I was shocked.

    It is N. x mediolutes known across the southern belt as ‘Twin Sisters.’

    Thanks again for all the help and comments.

    Clay

  7. Here is the close up of the daffodil that my 86 year old brother took with his cell phone.  I think it is clearly N. x medioluteus known as Twin Sisters.

     

    It’s not the best daffodil that was ever posted, but I think it is enough to identify the flower.

    Thanks,

    Clay

  9. Clay,

    That second photo definitely looks like N. x medioluteus. However, to me it looks like a different flower than those in the first photo. Perhaps it’s a difference in climate, but Twin Sisters’ foliage here grows long and tall  – up to and above knee height – and is twisted. The flower scapes are pretty substantial and upright, even in shade, and the flowers open at a more or less perpendicular angle to the stem.

    My N. x tenuior looked very much like the plant in the first photo, though the flowers could have been smaller. The scapes, however, were rather “wiry” and arched over like in the first photo, and had usually two flowers per stem. The cup was larger in proportion to the perianth than with N. x medioluteus, and it bloomed late, concurrently with some of my N. x medioluteus. I looked at your earlier post of N. x tenuior, and to me the first photo here looks like the same flower at a later stage of color fade. If that photo was taken in the deep south, it might also explain difference in appearance.

    Ross

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