Do a daffodil have a fruit?

Answer 1

Yes, daffodils DO have a fruit. However it is not a fruit that we eat like an apple, but a dry seed capsule.

Daffodils have two ways to reproduce:

• Asexually by bulbs producing clones of the parent plant.
• Sexually through seeds producing new and interesting hybrids.

For the home gardener, it is best to grow the daffodils from bulbs, so that you'll know what you're getting. Removing the seed pods will allow more energy to be stored in the bulb for more flowers the following year. Also, growing daffodils from seeds is a waiting game. It will be 5-7 years before the new plant can produce a flower, and you don't know what kind of flower you will eventually be seeing.