Description
Up to five, deep but bright gold flowers (darker than jonquilla) with a phenomenal heavy scent, from mid-March to April.
A dependable and reliable species flowering freely. In the garden, it is best sited in a fertile moist soil for the best results however in view of its undoubted rarity we prefer to grow it under alpine glass in a loam-based compost.
This species is much confused with Narcissus cerrolazae, which is widely grown as cordubensis in horticulture, owing to a misidentification of the original Spanish introduction. However and easy check is that N. cordubensis has an entire corona (not divided into lobes) whilst N. cerrolazae has a corona cleft into 6 very distinct and obvious lobes. You can see the entire corona in our pictures here, check out N. cerrolazae to see its divided corona. (It is also worth noting that N. cerrolazae is not constant in this feature, even within one flower spike, so it isn’t 100% reliably diagnostic)
