I've just been reading the very interesting article on the inheritance of mutations in narcissus by Peter Brandham in the RHS yearbook. There is one particular part that puzzles me. He says 'The genus is known to be almost completely self-incompatible..'
I'm pretty sure that I've had plenty of seeds off flowers of several different divisions that had been 'selfed' Sometimes I only had one bulb of a particular plant so had no choice. Also, some flowers eg of the Apodanthi seem to be designed to self-pollinate with the stamens and style close together within the tube.
So what is happening here? Are the selfed plants producing seeds by apomixis?
How 'almost completely' is the genus self-incompatible?