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Bulbs => NARCISSUS => Topic started by: biodiversite on March 18, 2009, 07:37:26 PM

Title: Narcissus poeticus var. physaloides ?
Post by: biodiversite on March 18, 2009, 07:37:26 PM

It's under this name I bought from trade this bulb some years ago, but I don't recognise a N. poeticus, and moreover it is now flowering, although this plant normally flowers in may...

Could you help me ?

Title: Re: Narcissus poeticus var. physaloides ?
Post by: biodiversite on March 21, 2009, 02:59:55 PM

no idea at all  :'(?

Title: Re: Narcissus poeticus var. physaloides ?
Post by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2009, 03:46:55 PM

Sorry, Bio, I was expecting a reply to you sooner  :-[

 Your pretty flower is a form of N. moschatus, and, since it is from the trade, perhaps the variety 'W.P. Milner' ... that would be around 20 + cms in height.... does that fit yours?

Title: Re: Narcissus poeticus var. physaloides ?
Post by: biodiversite on March 21, 2009, 04:47:22 PM

thank you Maggy ; I think it is a little higher than 20 cm but the most important for me is a good species identification... and I know nothing about narcissi  :-[

Title: Re: Narcissus poeticus var. physaloides ?
Post by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2009, 04:58:39 PM

This may be of somehelp, Bio.....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1195.0 W P Milner from Luit van Delft

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1167.msg26369;topicseen#msg26369 moschatus from Luit


http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1586.msg42707;topicseen#msg42707   moschatus from Kenneth K

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1458.msg38998;topicseen#msg38998  alpestris ,moschatus and WP Milner from Mark Smyth


 and a couple of pix.....

Title: Re: Narcissus poeticus var. physaloides ?
Post by: annew on March 21, 2009, 06:54:17 PM

It's not a familiar one to me. I though it might be N. pallidiflorus, but it's the wrong shape.