What are the characteristics and features of daffodils?

In daily life, fresh flowers and plants can not only make our living environment better, but also be more pleasing to the eye and purify the air. They are deeply loved by the public. Different flowers have different characteristics and features. Narcissus is a common plant in daily life. Narcissus is also a traditional famous flower. The most important feature is that the flowers are small and fresh with a faint fragrance.

What are the characteristics and features of daffodils?

Narcissus: Also known as Chinese narcissus, it is a variant of the multi-flowered narcissus. It is a perennial herb of the Amaryllidaceae family.

The leaves of daffodils emerge from the green-white tubular sheath at the top of the bulb, and the flower stalks (commonly known as arrows) then emerge from the leaves. Generally, each bulb can produce 1-2 flower stalks, and up to 8-11 branches, in umbel-shaped inflorescences. There are usually 6 petals, and the ends of the petals are goose yellow. There is a bowl-like protective cover outside the pistil. The bulb is ovate to broadly ovate-spherical, covered with a brown membrane. The leaves are narrow and ribbon-shaped, and the capsule is split on the back. Flowering period: spring. Narcissus likes warm, humid and well-drained environment.

The bulb is ovoid. The leaves are broadly linear, flat, 20-40 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, obtuse, entire, and pale green. The flower stem is almost as long as the leaves; the umbel has 4-8 flowers; the spathe-like involucre is membranous; the pedicels vary in length; the perianth tube is thin, gray-green, nearly triangular, about 2 cm long, with 6 perianth lobes, ovate to broadly elliptic, with a short tip at the apex, expanded, white, and fragrant; the corona is shallowly cup-shaped, light yellow, not wrinkled, and less than half the length of the perianth; there are 6 stamens, inserted in the perianth tube, with anthers at the base; the ovary has 3 chambers, each with many ovules, the style is slender, and the stigma has 3 lobes. Capsule locules dehiscent. Flowering period: spring.

The root of daffodil is a fibrous root system that grows from the stem disk. It is milky white, fleshy, cylindrical, without lateral roots, fragile, easily broken, and cannot regenerate after breaking. The epidermis is composed of a single layer of cells with a rectangular cross-section, and the cortex is composed of thin-walled cells with an elliptical shape. It is of external origin and the old roots have airways.

bulb:

The bulb of Chinese narcissus is conical or oval. The outside of the bulb is covered with a yellow-brown papery film, called the bulb bark. There are several layers of fleshy, white, entwined bulbous pieces inside, with axillary buds between each layer, flower buds in the central part, and the base is connected to the bulbous disc.

leaf:

The leaves of Chinese narcissus are flat and ribbon-shaped, pale green, with a frosty surface, obtuse tips, and parallel veins. Mature leaves are 30-50 cm long and 1-5 cm wide. The base is milky white sheath-like scales and there is no petiole. Cultivated Chinese daffodils generally have 5-9 leaves per plant, and up to 11 leaves.

flower:

The inflorescence axis emerges from the leaf cluster, is green, cylindrical, and hollow; the surface has obvious concave-convex prisms, and the epidermis has wax powder; it is 2-4.5 cm long and 2-3 mm in diameter. Umbel; the small flowers are fan-shaped at the top of the inflorescence axis, wrapped in a membranous spathe, usually 3-7 small flowers (up to 16); the perianth is fused at the base, tubular, with 6 lobes, flat like a disk when open, white; the corona is cup-shaped goose yellow or bright yellow (called golden cup and silver table. There are also golden cup and golden table - the petals and corona are both yellow; silver cup and silver table - the petals and corona are both white). There are 6 stamens, 1 pistil, 3-lobed stigma, and inferior ovary.

Most narcissus petals have 6 petals, but some have 8. They are oval in shape, and the ends of the petals are goose yellow. There is a bowl-like protective cover outside the pistil. The peduncle emerges from the leaf cluster and is higher than the leaf surface; generally, the flowering ones are leaf clusters with 4-5 leaves, with 1-7 flowers per bulb, and up to 10 or more; the umbel (umbel) has 4-6 flowers, and up to more than 10 flowers; the flowers are white and fragrant; the flowering period is January-February.

fruit:

It is a small capsule. The capsule develops from the ovary and cracks from the back when ripe. Chinese daffodils are triploid and do not produce seeds or fruits.