I have all the old seed lists from which my collection derives, though it may take some time to go through the ones on paper. One problem is that I don't usually know which seed came from wild collections, and which came from plants grown from wild seed but cultivated in a nursery (mainly Monocot/Michael Salmon, but some from Jim and Jenny Archibald's lists, possibly transmitted to them by other collectors such as John Blanchard). In the cultivated case, the parent plants may or may not have been carefully hand-pollinated, or blocked from bees. Most of these lists give the site of the original collection. I had a detailed inventory of my own plants, but when I upgraded to a new computer some years ago, it could not be transferred. I did print it out, though, and somewhere in the files the printout exists, and it's alphabetical. As for the N. albimarginatus we've been discussing, it is KV702 from Kurt Vickery's collection in Morocco, listed in his summer 2016 seed sale. The stalk of my "N. radinganorum" has two well-developed keels. Although I've always enjoyed raising Narcissus species from seed, I was a little surprised at the interest this discussion has provoked. Most of the species do so well here in the Pacific Northwest that perhaps I've taken them too much for granted. The only ones I can't seem to grow are the autumn-flowering species such as N. miniatus or N. serotinus, although N. elegans is doing fairly well. I keep the species I don't have a surplus of in my bulb house so they will not be so vulnerable to the narcissus fly (bulb fly); also I planted a large number of commercial daffodils in another part of the garden to lure the pests away from the valuable plants. They don't seem to attack the bulbs planted in turf; perhaps the grass, which is long when the leaves begin to turn yellow, hides them from the bulb fly, which I've heard is attracted by the color or scent of the withering plant -- it lays its eggs near the hole left by the old stem, and the larvae migrate into the bulb by that route. This pest also attacks Galanthus and Sternbergia, and I suppose Acis, but I haven't noticed damage on garden plants of those genera. Bulb fly is a serious enough pest in our region that some people in Seattle have told me they can't grow Narcissus. Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA On 3/6/2021 7:02 AM, Carlos Jiménez via pbs wrote: >>> Carlos, shall I just call my "N. hispanicus" "the very > tall N. pseudonarcissus" and my "N. bujei" "the short N. pseudonarcissus under > the Japanese maples"? > > Yes, I'm afraid. If you have collection data, write it on the label. You > will not have a collection of "names" but a germplasm repository from > different populations. > > Yes, it would be great if you could give information about the flower > stalks, specifically if they have two well developed keels or not. There's > being a bit of a fuzz regarding that trait these days. > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>