March Narcissus 2011

[Arykana]

they started in my garden

[annew]

hmmm, I can see I'm going to have to sneak up to your garden Anne with the bucket & spade

Did I forget to mention the minefield and attack dogs?   
Gerd, what lovely hybrids!
Re the romieuxii shown earlier. It seems that the friend whogave it to me also gave me another kind, and I have the labels switched. The bulbs I showed are N. bulbocodium genuinus x 'Jessamy'.Below is the N. romieuxii FS126.

[Gerdk]

Anne,
Thanks for compliments and information!

Gerd

[Rafa]

Hello again to all SRGC friends.

Here are some pictures that might surprise you and reinforce my theory of Narcissi evolution through successfull hybridisation process.
This is Narcissus x tuckeri (N. blancoi x N. fernandesii) in origin, but probably it is currently setting fertile seeds like other narcissus species.

[Rafa]

Narcissus fernandesii and Empusa pennata

[Rafa]

N. x incurvicervicus (N. triandrus subsp. pallidulus x N. fernandesii), N. triandrus is the "mother"

[Regelian]

Rafa,

something new!  Wow, I had no idea this hydrid even existed.  I take it N. blancoi is a bulbocodium type.  Great to see such expanses of bloom.  I take it, this hybrid produces seed.

[daveyp1970]

Rafa that preying mantis is fantastic,the Narcissus is too

[Rafa]

thank you, I will post some other species
Narcissus jonquilla in Jaén

[tonyg]

Beautiful pictures and interesting, as always.  Thanks Rafa.

[Rafa]

This is Narcissus blancoi, a controverted species that I support. I think it is a young species very variable, and I think its origin is the cross between N. cantabricus and N. hedraeanthus.

There are places with N. hedraeanthus and N. blancoi mixed, and it is not easy to determine pure species because there are intermediate plants. Also there are places with N. blancoi and N. cantabricus mixed and it is more easy to determine both species and the hybrids between them, because N. cantabricus blooms before N. blancoi.

[Rafa]

This is a comparative with three plants Narcissus triandrus subsp. pallidulus, Narcissus jonquilla and the hybrid in the center N. x nutans

[Rafa]

Another plant that I recently pictured. I was absolutely wrong concerning this plant and the bulbocodium from Gredos, Sierra de Estrella and Guadarrama Mt,: Linneo described N. bulbocodium L. in Peñalara, the highest mountain in Guadarrama, and then Graells called it subsp. nivalis that I considered valid as I thought N. bulbocodium L. was described in Ciudad Real. The pictures are from this bulbocodium I wrongly called Narcissus bulbocodium L., but I don't know the correct name it is the bulbocodium from Castilla la Mancha-Extremadura.

[tonyg]

Beautiful pictures and interesting, as always.  Thanks Rafa.

And it just gets better

[Rafa]

This confusion didn't affect the hybrid names but its necessary to know that  the bulbocodium parent is different in the following cases

Narcissus x rozeirae F. Casas = N. bulbocodium L. (father) x N. triandrus subsp pallidulus (mother)
The father is not N. bulbocodium L. it's the one above, from Extremadura - Castilla la Mancha
Narcissus x consolationis F. Casas = N. bulbocodium L. subdp. nivalis Graells (mother)x N. triandrus subsp pallidulus (father)
The mother is Narcissus bulbocodium L. from Guadarrama etc.. below