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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: shelagh on October 20, 2017, 09:52:46 PM

Title: Question
Post by: shelagh on October 20, 2017, 09:52:46 PM

Brian is reading Lady Sale's Diary about the retreat from Kabul in 1841/2 and amidst the hunger and earthquakes she reports that someone brought her a bunch of Narcissus, about which she was very pleased having rarely seen a blade of grass.  Any one have any idea which Narcissus that would be?

Title: Re: Question
Post by: ian mcdonald on October 21, 2017, 11:36:15 AM

Shelagh, it could be one of the Tazetta group. They have a wide distribution from Spain to China and vary from region to region. Collins guide to bulbs by Patrick M Synge. The internet has it as Tozeta.

Title: Re: Question
Post by: shelagh on October 21, 2017, 02:23:52 PM

Thank you Ian, I hadn't realised until this that Narcissus grew in Afghanistan.