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    A host of daffodils

    Aug 30, 2022 4 minutes

    WE all know what a daffodil looks like, but did you know there are so many different wild daffodil species and garden varieties of daffodil that they have been split up into at least 13 different groups? Of course, they all have features in common, but organising them in this way helps us understand what kind of daffodil we have.

    All daffodils grow from bulbs that look a little like onions or shallots, and they all have long narrow green leaves that emerge in early spring and die down in summer. The flower stems also emerge in spring, sometimes one and sometimes more from each bulb, and carry anything from one to a dozen or more flowers.

    Two-part structure

    The flowers all have the same

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