It has been a cold frosty winter here and many flowers are later than usual. The tazettas in the field are miserable. The paperwhites are miserable too but they seem a little more hardy. The viridiflorus hybrids in the field…
Winter bulbocodiums
Category: Science
This category is about the biology of daffodils and narcissus.
The generation of fertile allotetraploid hybrids of narcissus species by chromosome doubling
This spring I found many diploid pollen grains on one plant of Hawera and three plants of Fairy Chimes. These species hybrids were transformed with Oryzalin from diploids to tetraploids or mixoploids. More information you will find in the PDF file The…
Chinese Sacred Lily (N. tazetta var chinensis) seeds…
Yes, you can look at all the articles coming out of China and elsewhere, on how hopelessly sterile this variety is. But, thanks to the wonders of significantly warmer temperatures here in recent years, and my discovery that with otherwise…
Bellingham Daffodil Research
Does anyone have information on Bellingham WA daffodil research? I work in Bellingham and I’ve heard WSU used to have a tree and daffodil research station where they built the mall. Just curious what sort of research was done and is that…
Narcissus x xanthochlorus or Narcissus x perezlarae
At November 7, 2014 I published a picture in Daffnet which I thought to be N. x xanthochlorus. Gerd Knoche told me that it may be N. x perezlarae (N. miniatus x N. cavanillesii). He lets me doubt whether…
Seventh Supplement (2013-2014) to the 2008 Daffodil Register
Dear All I just wanted to let you know that the Seventh Supplement is now available in printed format (£5) and also as an online PDF at: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plantsmanship/plant-registration/daffodil-cultivar-registration/daffodils I hope there aren’t any errors in the Supplement, however, please contact…