Category: Taxonomy

This is about the naming and relationships between the different narcissus species.

Possibilities for Intergeneric Narcissus hybrids

Vagaria parviflora

Lapiedra martinezii and Vagaria parviflora are two species closely related to Narcissus, though not as closely as those in Sternbergia. As the former two are blooming now for me, I collected their pollen and attempted pollinating them with Narcissus pollen…

We’ll miss John Reed and Oakwood Daffodils

  Why It’s Called Oakwood If you visited Oakwood Daffodils in Niles, Michigan during the season and asked Dr. John Reed, “What’s new?”, you would likely be treated to a ride in his golf cart and to a firehose of…

Possibility of intergeneric hybrids.

Reading about ×Howardara (a complex trigeneric hybrid involving species from Hippeastrum, Sprekelia, and Zephyranthes), as well as other intergeneric hybrids from the Amaryllidaceae, such as ×Amarcrinum, I was wondering about the possibility of intergeneric hybrids involving Narcissus. Has anyone tried this…

Species

IT is great to see a real discussion once again appearing on Daffnet. It has left me a little confused. I first exhibited daffodils about 65 years ago and got really involved through the seventies. I believed that the wild…

Narcissus x barrae and Narcissus grandae

A new species ‘N. grandae’ has been described. I think it is allotetraploid like for example N. miniatus and N. tortifolius. It has beautiful flowers and is vigerous and therefore should be of interest for exhibition and hybridizing. More information…

Heritage help please!

With too much to do I decided instead to go and visit some old friends. Van  Sion. Orange Phoenix Yellow Phoenix (I think). Orange Phoenix and Yellow Phoenix together. This is an old 19th century pseudonarcissus. Perhaps someone can offer…