Author: Theo Sanders

Seedlings 6

These are seedlings of Truculent x N. cordubensis and Decoy x N. cordubensis sowed in 2002. They have one flower per stem and perhaps are suited to intermediates. I hope that the colour of the second flower is as intense in the next…

Seedlings 5

Harold, John and All,   This year the first two seedlings of Regeneration x Emerald Sea flowered. The Emerald Sea from you, John, grows very well. This year I tried it outside for the first time. Because of the strong…

Seedlings 4

  The second picture is an older seedling of Honeybird x N. hedraeanthus (NHH). This year I found out, that it is fertile. It has unreduced pollen and gives with N. hedraeanthus (HH) allotetraploid daffodils of the type NNHH which are fertile.…

Seedlings 3

Wilf and All,   Crosses of standard daffodils with N. tazetta patulus are possible, but I found till now only Ufo, Loch Coire and Actaea to produce some seeds. An extraordinary  high number of these seedlings has fertile pollen. This…

Seedlings 2

  This is ((Pontresina x (Edna Earl x Rahee)) x N. assoanus (NNA) with fertile pollen NA of one chromosome set N and one A from N. assoanus. I didn’t measure the flower diameter but I think it is a little smaller than 50…

Seedlings 1

  All, This spring I made some new observations concerning fertility of crosses between standard daffodils and species. Tetraploid standard daffodils with four chromosome sets (NNNN) crossed with diploid species for example jonquils (JJ) give an allotriploid plant with NNJ, which should…