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Narcissus poeticus (poet's narcissus)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Narcissus poeticus poeticus
Narcissus poeticus radiiflorus (Attributes)
Narcissus poeticus verbanensis

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  All parts of the plant, and especially the bulb, are poisonous; The aroma of the flowers can cause some people to get a headache when they are in a closed room;
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Scent [2]  The flowers are powerfully scented;
Structure [2]  Bulb
Usage [2]  An essential oil is obtained from the flowers. 500kg of the flowers yields 1kg concrete, 300gr absolute of the essential oil;
Height [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [2]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Xanthopastis timais (Spanish Moth)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Uredo campanulae[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0