Timeline for What is this familiar-looking exotic-shaped gentle-yellow flower?
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| Apr 3, 2018 at 18:09 | comment | added | Sue Saddest Farewell TGO GL | b.nota, thanks for your kind and fast reply! Now I understand what you did! Thanks for reminding us about the goal of more than one answer per question. Maybe someone will add one here just for that reason, not to be better than your answer. I can't do it because I have lots of these flowers and call them all daffodils, so my answer would be the exact same as yours! | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 8:40 | comment | added | benn | @Sue, thanks for your comment. I wrote a short answer so that other people can also write their answer. According to Area 51, 2.5 answers per questions are good, but only 1 answer per question is just okay. Feel free to add a better answer. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 23:15 | comment | added | Sue Saddest Farewell TGO GL | Please don't think I'm criticizing your hugely popular answer! The thing is, it's almost link-only, so people have to go off-site to learn about the plant. See this page in the help center. If the link goes down, there's not enough information. The ideal would be for you to expand on your answer, although it might be difficult with these conflicting comments. Some of them don't follow protocol, and they don't stay around anyway, so if you could make your answer more complete, that would be great! Thanks! | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 9:02 | vote | accept | VividD | ||
| Mar 30, 2018 at 11:13 | comment | added | mcalex | Jonquils are daffodils, but not all daffodils are jonquils. All daffodils are Narcissus, but OP's is likely Narcissus pseudonarcissus, jonquils are Narcissus jonquilla, the daffodil known as narcissus (or paperwhite) is Narcissus tazetta papyraceous. | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 7:35 | comment | added | anaximander | While daffodils are non-invasive, it is worth remembering where you put the bulbs, because they're pretty strong growers. A neighbour of mine once had a dozen or so daffodils happily punching their way up through their newly-laid tarmac driveway... | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 20:23 | comment | added | user21111 | @davidbak: It's the same flower. It's called "jonquille" in French. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 18:34 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | @Belle-Sophie: my wife and I moved into the first house we owned together in early fall, and spent that winter picking out daffodils to plant when spring came. Imagine our surprise when next spring THOUSANDS of daffodils came up - and we hadn't planted any yet! A prior owner had put in a lot of bulbs and had then ignored them. When we got there the leaves would grow but they wouldn't flower because over time they'd split so many times the bulbs were over-crowded. So we not only planted the bulbs we'd bought, but we also dug up and separated the bulbs that were already there. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 16:29 | comment | added | davidbak | @andrewbuilder - Ah thank you! The scent is an important difference! | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 16:24 | comment | added | andrewbuilder | In response to comment by @davidbak also worth noting... jonquil flowers usually much smaller, however primary difference is scent - daffodil flowers have no scent while jonquil flowers emit a very strong scent. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 15:08 | comment | added | Phil N DeBlanc | They're very common here in northern Oregon, and ours also come in white. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 15:00 | comment | added | TylerH | @davidbak jonquil refers to the same genus as daffodil/Narcissus. IIRC it is a regional name. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 14:58 | comment | added | VividD | @TylerH Yes, good comment! I am not a native English speaker, but I searched in the dictionary for the word "lent" (which is not really widely-known to non-native speakers), and I found that meaning ("a period before Easter"). I like that name... | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | davidbak | Is "jonquil" a synonym for daffodil or is it a different flower? | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | TylerH | @pipe to be clear for future readers, that's Lent Lily, not lent lily; they are associated with the Christian Lent season and its associations with rebirth, not associated with the act of lending to someone... :-) | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 13:59 | comment | added | Belle | One of my favourite flowers! Someone planted bulbs all over my neighbourhood a few years back, so every spring the neighbourhood turns yellow/white/orange and green. OP, no need to worry, they're non-invasive. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 12:14 | comment | added | pipe | Also known as lent lily, which explains the question "What is he doing here?" | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 8:21 | history | answered | benn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |