Wednesday 12 September 2012

Daffodils



The Narcissus whose common name is Daffodils. Daffodils have a large number of varieties. Usually the tiny flowers of daffodils have a pale yellow color.  


The wild species of daffodils have only six leaves around locular ovaries which usually grow as triplets. Daffodils grow from a bulb which has alkaloid poison named lycorine.  The name Daffodils is derived from an earlier “Affodell”, a variant of Asphodel.


 



                                                                                                                     
                                                                                       

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