Narcissus March 2009 -

[Jim McKenney]

Would anyone like to hazard a guess on this one? It was received as a Narcissus bulbocodium variant, and is obviously not that. The flower is about 2 cm across; the corona is 8 mm across. It has a strong scent of jonquil. It's about 12 cm high and the single flower faces upward (although that might be due to the earlier position of the scape).

All of these tiny jonquil types look alike to me. 

[annew]

It looks very like what I received as N. cordubensis pale form from Rannveig Wallis. The deep lobing of the corolla looks the same.

[Jim McKenney]

Thanks, Anne.

I know another gardener in this area who has cordubensis; if her plant is now in bloom, I'll compare them to see if we have a match.

[mark smyth]

Unfortunately yes. I sprayed all my collection last week with a good fungicide

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony, some nice dwarfs, but I think Mark would suggest your asturiensis have Stagonospora??

The leaves are burnt due to an encroaching plant that has been cut back. I will spray just in case.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Unfortunately yes. I sprayed all my collection last week with a good fungicide

What would be a good fungicide in this case Mark ??

[Lesley Cox]

One of the few Narcissus that does really well here, N. Hawera.

Ah Ha! A New Zealander in Israel. 

[Oron Peri]

and its seems to feel at home here...flowering abundantly for about 3 weeks

[Anthony Darby]

Here are some more pics of the Narcissus ? that I bought as N. pachybolbus. It's about 20cm tall and looks like a bulbocodium with large petals.

[annew]

It loos like it might be a hoop petticoat of some kind crossed with some other section. Maybe Little Soldier?
http://daffseek.org/query/query-detail.php?value1=Little%20Soldier&lastpage=1
It's very nice.

[Maggi Young]

That's a close approximation you have pin-pointed there, Anne.
A very attractive little daff, indeed, Anthony.

[Anthony Darby]

Very strange, as I came from a supplier wrongly labelled, but it is not in my niature to complain if the result, like this, is something interesting. It there is a mixup, they, or their supplier, must be selling it as something?

[Tony Willis]

some narcissus in flower atb the moment

Narcissus bulbocodium var citrinus
Narcissus rupicola
Narcissus nobilis

[annew]

N nobilis is very aptly named.

[Gerry Webster]

That's a close approximation you have pin-pointed there, Anne.
A very attractive little daff, indeed, Anthony.

It would be very attractive if  it was possible to get disease-free plants. I bought some last autumn & when they came into leaf the virus was the worst I've ever seen. They went straight into the dustbin. I wonder where Anthony's plants came from?