Narcissus September - December 2009

[BULBISSIME]

thank's Gerd for all this pictures, N. serotinus also occurs in Corsica  

[Anthony Darby]

See reply 1173 above ......... Maggi. I notice that you have changed the title of the page. The narcissus page it too big anyway and now that the southern hemisphere season (which although nice, is not relevant to me) seems to be over.

[Maggi Young]

Anthony, this forum currently has 113966 Posts in 3722 Topics by 965 Members.  While I do what I can to keep up with everything and to help have everything in its place... there is only so much one person can accomplish..... and, to be honest, it does not rate very high on my Richter scale whether or not a page has relevance to you.

I notice that you have changed the title of the page.

Not this page.Not yet.... though I may do!

The narcissus page it too big anyway

If posters were to keep to the month titled pages that are sometimes used, then threads would likely be smaller but whether or not that has  any benefit is undecided.  

I am aware that those in the Southern hemisphere can feel that "their" threads are somewhat on the periphery of things and the "inclusive" Narcissus thread was an attempt to remedy that by keeping all together.  

I have now decided that I will solve any difficulties by merging the whole jing bang.  

[annew]

Better a lumper than a splitter be...
Good lord, just got this message:
Warning - while you were reading 122 new replies have been posted. Are we all replying to Maggi?

[Maggi Young]

No, Anne, only Anthony! 

[art600]

 

[Joakim B]

I generally like long threads but here one sees only 5 pages at the time so to goto page 56 out of 77 takes some time.
Is there a "goto page" function somewhere as I have seen on other forums?
It would be helpful to check in the long threads that are sometimes years of knowledge.
I like to see things from the upside down world and might have missed some of the fun if I had to look at a special thread for that.
I can understand that a special thread for them also has some points but we can not get it both ways unless we have the posts in more than one place.
 I love the work You are doing Maggi and sometimes comes with suggestions of threads that can be moved to newly made subdivisions and accept Your calls as final even if I sometimes disagree. Luckely that happen very seldom.
All the best
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

Thank you, Joakim, it is great to have constructive suggestions from Forumists.
I will ask Fred if there is a chance to have a "got to page X" feature, that would be helpful.

[Maggi Young]

Friends, Webmaster Fred has added a "got to page X" function to the Forum! Hope this helps !

Many thanks, Fast Fred! 

[Lvandelft]

Now, that IS a real good suggestion and an enormous IMPROVEMENT
This really helps to catch up on some threads when (like me) being away for nearly three weeks!
Thank you Joakim, Maggie and F. F. Fred 

[Ragged Robin]

Aha, so it's thanks to Fred for creating it and to Joakrim for his brainwave idea -  

[Joakim B]

That is a great improvement and I saw it on an other forum so it was not much my idea. To be honest I pushed the wrong button to discover it.
Here it will be of much bigger value than the other forum since the threads are so long (and good here).

Thanks Fred and great work
Joakim

[Gerdk]

Gerd if I understand correctly then my serotinus from Turkey is now miniatus.
I am totally sceptical on these divisions and may even discover some new species whilst away.

Tony,
I am in line with you concerning there are a lot of divisions of Narcissus (and other genera) which make no sense. Contrary to that the separation of miniatus from serotinus was overdue. Besides a lot of morphological differences serotinus has a chromosome set of 2 n = 10 (20 is also recorded) and miniatus has 2 n = 30. Until now no hybrids between them were found although there are a few stations near Sevilla where both species grow side by side.
The distribution of these autumn daffodils around the Mediterranean isn't documented well. Plants from Cyprus and Crete which I saw belong to miniatus, those from Italy, Greece, Turkey and Israel probably too (according pics).

It would be great if you'll make some close-ups of the flowers from the Turkish population for comparison.

Gerd

[Paul T]

Sorry Anthony, but season not quite ended here yet.  Narcissus biflorus opened it's first (and only for this year) flower yesterday.

[David Nicholson]

Here is my first Narcissus of the new season, and about a month earlier than last year-Narcissus romieuxii x N. cantabricus 'Nylon Group'. This one from the Rob Potterton 'stable'