Narcissus pseudonarcissus L.

Daffodil

Bulb dark to pale, 2-5 cm wide. Leaves to about 40 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, waxy blue. Flowers solitary, yellow; spring. Perianth tube greenish, 2-2.5 cm long; lobes white to yellow; corona wavy-edged, to about 4.5 cm long, dark yellow as long as the segments or longer, double in cultivars; stamens enclosed.

France

An extremely variable species sometimes considered as consisting of up to 20 species (and their varieties) or else divided into many subspecies.

 

N. ×odorus L. is a garden hybrid between N. jonquilla and N. pseudonarcissus and differs from the latter in having perianth and corona the same colour.

N. minor L. from France and Spain has a perianth tube less than 1.5 cm long. N. minor L. is the species of spring-flowering small trumpet daffodils.

N. cyclamineus DC. from Portugal and Spain has the perianth lobes distinctively bent back over the ovary.

Source: Ashburner, W.; Ashburner, C.; Spencer, R. (2005). Narcissus. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Lilianae
order      Asparagales
family       Amaryllidaceae
genus        Narcissus L.