Description
A seed and division propagated stock raised from what was originally just 2 bulbs received from the late Jim Archibald. This has now been through a few generations in cultivation.
This has good-sized flowers, slightly flatter in shape than some of the other Spanish forms which we know, but all are of a beautiful, pure, ice-white. The plants illustrated are pictures of our exact stock.
There are suggestions in some quarters that N. cantabricus from Morocco is in fact the true N. cantabricus, while others say that only the Spanish plants are entitled to the name (if a distinction is made). 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. These are however true, Moroccan progeny of two bulbs originally from Jim Archibald. The collection number given to us when we received it was 365/2 but this is almost certainly SF 365/2 (M. Salmon and M. Fillan) which is documented as a collection of Narcissus cantabricus from which some plants corresponding to petunioides were further selected out. I do not have geographical details for this collection, other than Jim’s original “Morocco”.
Readily grown under what we think of as our standard miniature Narcissus conditions.
