Narcissus tazetta has a few Autumn blooming varieties from dry Mediterranean areas that bloom when the first rains arrive in the fall and winter, these varieties don’t need a winter chill in order to bloom like most Narcissus. My Autumn…
Category: Pollination
This is about the relationship between flower structure and pollination efficiency. It also includes reproductive costs and success.
Some crosses with diploid tazettas and their fertility
Winter bulbocodiums
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…
fertile tetraploid tazetta pollen
If any breeders out there want to make some fertile tazetta hybrids with regular daffodils, these should be ideal. Right now I have collected an excess of pollen from several clones of (Autumn Colors x my hexaploid conversion of “Chinese…