This category is about the biology of daffodils and narcissus.
The pictures show new seedlings of this spring from the following crosses: Symptom x Matador, Hillstar x Amadeus and Oregon Cedar x Emerald Sea. These crosses have 3 chromosome sets of standard daffodils (NNN) and 1 chromosome set of N. tazetta, N. jonquilla or N.…
V05-02 is a cross of: [(Petite Buerre x N. cyclamineus) x (N. assoanus x N. fernandesii)]. This has been a productive cross that has given progeny with a wide range of form which I find quite interesting. The cross is…
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…
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.…
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…
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…