Category: Pollination

This is about the relationship between flower structure and pollination efficiency. It also includes reproductive costs and success.

Summer census

By the end of summer 7 tazetta varieties have flowered: – two 8Y-O, one 8W-Y and four 8W-O. The first, 14_05T is quite nice. It still has a few florets in flower. Six days later 16_01T opened. Two days ago…

The inheritance of recessive and dominant mutations in daffodil cultivars

This is the title of an article from Peter Brandham in the “Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2017, pages 26-32”. Essential statements in this paper are: Pitfalls often occur, one of the more disappointing being the mysterious disappearance of some…

Theory according to Dave

These flowers of Nb nivalis are quite the smallest daffodils that we grow. When exhibited in NZ they are down pointed because they are too small compared with a vase of Nb conspicuous. Now here is the theory according to…

Open Pollination

  My first steps as a hybridizer were to cross standard daffodils. I read in the literature that it is not necessary to prevent open pollination because only 1 to 1,5 % of the flowers generate seed without pollination of…

Narcissus cantabricus crosses

   These two miniature daffodils are flowering in the greenhouse. The seedlings of both crosses often generate unreduced pollen. I shall try the first one out of doors this year but am not very optimistic that it will do well.…