Description
Originally found above Beni Mellal (680m) in the lower altitudes of Jbel Tassemit (2,247m) but basically at high altitude in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. It has now been bred through several seed generations in cultivation.
This has good sized flowers, slightly more tubular than the Spanish forms and, in some plants, the slightest hint of cream in the flowers.
Equally lovely, just different to the other forms with the suggestion in some quarters that N. cantabricus from Morocco is in fact the true N. cantabricus, while Spanish plants could be another species. A bit of botanical splitting perhaps but naming in the genus is a a state of rapid flux at present, as more and more plant populations are studied.
Readily grown under what we think of as our standard miniature Narcissus conditions.
