Angels Tears

Description

“Pet poisonous” – Toxic parts: bulbs Narcissus triandrus is a species of bulbous plant native to France, Spain and Portugal. The common name is "Angel's Tears", and the plant has pendulant (nodding or drooping) cream to yellowish flowers. Flower size varies, increasing from southeast to northwest, correlating with plant size, probably reflecting a rainfall gradient from the hot Mediterranean climate of the southeast to the cooler, wetter Atlantic climate found in the northwest. Changes in flower size correlate with pollinator fauna. Anthophoraspp. being dominant in the southern population and the larger-bodied Bombus spp. in the north. Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring perennial plants in the Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis) family. Various common names including daffodil, daffadowndilly, narcissus, and jonquil are used to describe all or some members of the genus. Narcissus has conspicuous flowers with six petal-like tepals surmounted by a cup- or trumpet-shaped corona. The flowers are generally white or yellow (also orange or pink in garden varieties), with either uniform or contrasting coloured tepals and corona. Narcissus were well known in ancient civilisation, both medicinally and botanically, but formally described by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753).