Narcissus February 2021

[Gerdk]

Gerd, if I knew what the problem was, I would fix it. The bulbs got smaller and stopped flowering. I tried in different conditions, but it doesn't seem to help. I sent some back to Spain last year as I did not want to kill them all, but the few I have left are just emerging. I do have hybrid seedlings from them though. I am really happy to see they are doing well somewhere else, as I know how rare and precious they are.

Thank you Anne. Your reply reminds me to be more carefully with this species. Indeed they were slightly smaller here than a year before, so I have to prevent that this will continue.

[annew]

Things are coming into flower so quickly, it's hard to keep up with the photography.
Below: Fling, Deryn, Wee Nod, Susan Cox, Columba, and an unnamed seedling.

[Andrew Gardner]

My pot grown Cyclamineus have begun to open this week. They still take my breath away way more than any other Narcissus.

[Yann]

Narcissus albimarginatus: less than 100 plants in the wild

[Matt T]

Narcissus albimarginatus: less than 100 plants in the wild

That’s a terrifying statistic! And probably even fewer in cultivation?! 

[Gerdk]

Narcissus albimarginatus: less than 100 plants in the wild

-  the more one should try to multiply those in cultivation!

[Karaba]

Acis tingitana, from the same area, is also very located and with <50 mature individuals in the wild. Hopefully, it is now quite common in cultivation, at least in collection.

[Gerdk]

Acis tingitana, from the same area, is also very located and with <50 mature individuals in the wild. Hopefully, it is now quite common in cultivation, at least in collection.

- seems it is around. I recieved it long ago from a friend in Eastern Germany.

Ivain - would you please let me know the citation for the scarcity mentioned above.
Gerd

[Karaba]

Gerd, This is in Conservation assessments and Red Listing of the endemic Moroccan flora (monocotyledons): Red Listing of the Moroccan Flora by Rankou et al. 2015. There's distribution map for the moroccan endemic monocotyledones.

Nice pot of Acis, mine is growing and I hope to get seeds soon with my seedlings from the SRGC Seedex.

[Chad]

Narcissus cyclamineus in an isolated self sowing population in what is nominally 'The Rose Bed'!

Chad

[Gerdk]

Yvain, thank you very much!

Gerd

[Gerdk]

Narcissus x susannae

- luckily much better to maintain than its parents Nn. cantabricus and triandrus

Gerd

[ashley]

Magnificent Gerd.

[Gerdk]

Thank you Ashley!

[Maggi Young]

Narcissus x susannae

- luckily much better to maintain than its parents Nn. cantabricus and triandrus

Gerd

Be still my  beating heart! Soooo beautiful!