Description
This heading is for information only.
The true plant is an exceptionally beautiful form of the North African Narcissus romieuxii selected from JCA.805 by the original collector, the late J. C. Archibald and named, by Jim, after his daughter.
It has large, very widely flaring trumpets of soft yellow, looking not unlike a Petunia in shape and indeed this is almost a pale yellow counterpart of N. cantabricus petunioides.
The flower in our picture below shows the more widespread horticultural offering from commercial growers. When fully developed and opened Julia Jane should reflex so that the flower is almost flat in the true petunioid manner. With this form the flowers do not do so and we consider it untrue and that much, if not all, of the commercial stock offered under this name and raised originally in the Netherlands, is unfortunately not true to name, lacking this true, flat, flower shape that the real plant should have.
We do not offer this stock and there is no “waitlist” available for it.
We are concentrating instead on a petunioid-flowered stock that we consider is true and which is directly traceable to Jim via just one other grower before ourselves.
