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The daffodil gets its food through photosynthesis. When the plant has leaves, it is making its food through the interaction between chlorophyll in its leaves and sunlight. It uses this food during the flowering process and stores some of the food in the bulb underground. The following year, the bulb will use this food to send new shoots up through the soil to develop a new green plant.
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∙ 10y agoDaffodils bloom because they are of the Infradivision Angiospermae which holds all the flowering plants. The flower is a sexual reproductive organ that increases the genetic variability within the species. However the daffodil is very sucessful as an asexual plant (reproducing primarily by bulbets from the mother bulb). So that makes the daffodil flower an ornamental and one that brings smiles after a long, gray winter.
Note: should you deadhead a daffodil? YES! Personally I pick all my daffodil flowers as soon as they bloom. That way the food the leaves make gets stored in the bulb for next year's flowers. And I like to have daffodil blooms in every room of my house.
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What is the origin of the flower fragant called narcissis that blooms in the spring?
the daffodil
What is the yellow bulb flower that has three blooms per stem?
a daffodil.
What happens to a flower after it blooms?
it dies
When does a Daffodil bloom?
Short answer: the daffodil blooms in the spring.Things that can affect bloom time:Daffodils cultivars can be early, mid or late season bloomers.Also the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone has to be considered.Another variable is the soil temp. Has it been a normal, long or short winter?Type of soil can also affect bloom time.Transplanting or late plantings can cause the blooms to be "late".
Do daffodils stay until June?
The last week you'll be able to pick a daffodil depends on the locality. Down here in Zone 7b, we are in the Piedmont area, our blooms are expected on Valentine's Day and we'll see the last of the late season blooms in mid-April. However, up in Zone 3 & 4, I expect that you might see a daffodil still blooming as late as the first days of June.
Why does a daffodil change color?
A daffodil does not change color during its lifetime. There have been color changes in the genus because of breeders/hybridizers picking certain parent blooms looking for their perfect flower, but the plant's flower cannot change its color from one day to the next.
What happens if pollen from a daffodil is spread to tulip?
Though they are both flowering, herbaceous, bulb perennials, the tulip and the daffodil are genetically noncompatible. The daffodil is of the Family Amaryllidaceae and the tulip is of the Family Liliaceae. That's just too distant for the genes to line up properly for cross-pollination. Therefore, nothing happens except a waste of good pollen when pollen from one visits the stigma of the other.
Are daffodils flowering or nonflowering plants?
A daffodil is an angiosperm and thus a flowering plant. In fact it is the sight of the dancing, happy late winter blooms that gets people so giddy that spring is just around the corner. The daffodil flower is not only the national flower of Wales, but it is also the international symbol of hope for many of the cancer societies around the world.
A spring flower that rhymes with hill?
Silly, Billy, willy-nilly, filly, Phili, lily, Millie, Milly, Jilly
Is daffodil a spermatophyte?
Yes a daffodil produces seeds.
What is blue and looks like a daffodil?
A blue daffodil
Is daffodil the name of a country?
No, daffodil is not the name of a country, but it is the name of a university: Daffodil International University in Bangladesh. Daffodil Day is and international donations drive sponsored by the local cancer societies. Daffodil is also the national flower of Wales.
