Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

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…

Hummingbird

  Further to my note about N. dubius/poeticus these are pictures of a pot of N. assoanus festooned with labels as described – it is a more photogenic pot that those of N. dubius.. for N. assoanus and N. dubius…

Adams 98-28C Division 4 miniature?

I received a bulb, Adam 98-28C (Evans Q28 x N. jonquilla)   from David Adams, Christchurch, New Zealand, in Spring 2009. David Adams attended the Fortuna Show a week after the Murphys National. David asked me how the bulb of 98-28C was doing. I told…

Flowering to-day in Omagh

All, The third and last set of pictures taken this morning.  Firstly a John Hunter seedling that he kindly gave me.  Perhaps not the prettiest flower in the world – but I think I see pollen in there and with…

hybridizing

Hello everyone, I agree with you Marilynn, You just don’t know for sure what is fertile and what is not until you try it yourself. what didn’t work for someone else under their conditions might work for you in your…

Fertility of N. x alleniae

In 2007, 2008 and 2009 I saw 21 clones of different N. x alleniae ( N. miniatus x N. viridiflorus ) near Conil in Southern Spain. I had my facility for testing pollen with me and found out, that 13 clones…