Narcissus 'St George's Dragonlady' (11a)

Fl. 89mm wide; perianth segments 38mm long, very broadly ovate, blunt or somewhat truncate, slight mucro, golden yellow, spreading, shallowly concave, with margins incurling, creased and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments a little narrower and shouldered at base; corona 22.5mm long, split almost to base into six segments, each closely overlying a perianth segment forming an inner and an outer whorl of three, brilliant orange-red, with deep olive-green at base, bi-lobed and wavy to lightly frilled, with rim crenate. Early to mid-season. Sunproof

Size

Time to Maturity
No preference

Botanical Details

Family
Amaryllidaceae
Native to GB/Ireland
No
Genus
Narcissus are bulbous herbaceous perennials with linear leaves and leafless stems bearing flowers, which may be solitary or in umbels, with 6 spreading perianth segments and a cup or trumpet-shaped corona
Name Status
Accepted
Horticultural Group
Split-corona daffodils mostly have solitary flowers, the corona split for at least half its length; in Collar-type cultivars the corona segments are usually reflexed, each lying on top of a perianth segment, forming an inner and an outer whorl of three