Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring flowering perennial vegetation of the amaryllis circle of relatives, amaryllidaceae. Diverse common names inclusive of daffodil, narcissus and jonquil are used to explain all or a few participants of the genus. Narcissus has conspicuous flowers with six petal-like tepals surmounted by a cup- or trumpet-shaped corona. The plant life are commonly white or yellow (also orange or crimson in lawn types), with either uniform or contrasting coloured tepals and corona. Narcissus have been well known in historic civilisation, both medicinally and botanically, however formally defined through linnaeus in his species plantarum (1753). The genus is usually considered to have approximately ten sections with about 50 species. The variety of species has numerous, depending on how they're categorised, because of similarity among species and hybridisation.
The genus arose a while inside the past due oligocene to early miocene epochs, inside the iberian peninsula and adjoining areas of southwest europe. The precise origin of the name narcissus is unknown, but it's far frequently connected to a greek word for intoxicated (narcotic) and the parable of the adolescents of that call who fell in love with his very own reflection. The english word "daffodil" appears to be derived from "asphodel", with which it changed into generally in comparison. The species are native to meadows and woods in southern europe and north africa with a centre of diversity in the western mediterranean, specially the iberian peninsula. Each wild and cultivated plants have naturalised widely, and have been delivered into the a long way east previous to the 10th century. Narcissi tend to be lengthy-lived bulbs, which propagate by department, but are also insect-pollinated. Regarded pests, diseases and problems encompass viruses, fungi, the larvae of flies, mites and nematodes. Some narcissus species have turn out to be extinct, whilst others are threatened through growing urbanisation and tourism.
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