Onion & Garlic Family [Alliaceae] |
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6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A few underground bulbs close together. Unlike many Alliaceae family species, of which it is now thought to be a member, the bulb does not smell of onions or of garlic. |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves 'flat' glaucous-green and between 5-15mm wide. |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
With between 3 to 8 (extremes 2-15) flowers emerging from near the top of a main stem. |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The six tepals/sepals are white (not orange) whilst the corona is yellow to deep yellow (not orange). The tepals are fanned out roughly in the same plane (i.e. not swept backwards). |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
There is a paper-thin flap where the flower stalks emerge, just like those in the Alliaceae family [it IS in the Alliaceae family now). Where the flower stalks first emerge is a bulge at which point the rest of the stalk bends (like an elbow). A long, narrower paler-green section of the stalk gives rise to a white un-opened flower bud. |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
There are 3 inner white petals and 3 outer concolorous white sepals in the flower. The corona is yellow to deep yellow and like a shallow cupped-bowl, between 3 to 6mm (long(?) or diameter(?) is not specified in Stace - if only he used the normal engineering abbreviation for diameter: φ - I suspect that it is the length, since the diameter is definitely more than 6mm across). |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Within the corona are 6 orange anthers, 3 slightly longer than the other three. |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The stigma has just one style but your Author cannot spot it here. |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
This specimen has about 10 flower stalks emerging from one stem, which is still within specification for Bunch-flowered Daffodil, but slightly above the normal range. [The lobed leaves below are of a differing plant]. |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The dark-green bulge just after the bend is the ovary, which is inferior (meaning before/behind the tepals). |
A NON-WHITE GARDEN VARIETYWhich does not occur in the Wild |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Those meeting the specification for Division 8 derivatives of Daffodils (i.e. Tazetta species) but which have yellow tepals (as here) are also grown in gardens but unlike the white-tepalled variety have not been found growing in the wild. |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
6th April 2018, Roby, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Easily confused with : Pheasant's-Eye Daffodil (Narcissus poeticus) [which also has a 6 large white petals with a short cupped-bowl shaped yellow inner, but in the case of Narcissus poeticus the cupped-bowl has a red rim and only one flower per main stem]. Bunch-flowered Daffodil also hybridizes with Pheasant's-Eye Daffodil
Not to be semantically confused with : Hybridizes with :
Bunch-flowered Daffodil is fragrant, with the major constituent in the essential oil being trans-Ocimene at 61% (but this seems to be for the cultivar Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis), whereas another source claims that Benzyl Acetate, Linalool and |
Narcissus | tazetta | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Alliaceae |
Narcissus (Daffodils) |
Onion & Garlic Family [Alliaceae] |