Narzisse Blom
By Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
South Africa
July 3, 2016 3:06pm CST
Believed to be very common in Germany, the flower represented on the stamp pasted on my postcard, is of the Narzisse flower or otherwise known as a daffodil.
Afsolutely beautiful stamp as well as a flower that I had been lucky to see in the wild countryside travels of Europe. My friend sent photos of the wild narzisse blooms all over Belgium and Germany, which add to the longing of wanting to be there again even just for a moment.
The Tour D' France cycle race started in Normandy yesterday and I am sure many travelers will see the wild blooms as well. I shall be watching for my daily dose of European countryside via the tour daily as I just love it.
I hope your day was blessed.
Till later 
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
3 Jul 16
What a beautiful stamp with a lovely flower (and an excellent photo of the stamp, too)! The post office was fairly kind to only frank it quite lightly.
The flower shown is called narcissus in English. It is the same family as the daffodil but has pale cream petals and an orange trumpet, whereas the daffodil is all yellow. Narcissi often have more than one flower on a stem, also, where daffodils only ever have one per stem.
The photo attached is of some daffodils (not wild, I'm afraid) which grow in the grass at the front of my house. These are miniature daffodils and about the same size as the wild ones which Wordsworth feted in his famous poem.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
4 Jul 16
@JudyEv There are, indeed, cultivated blooms with many colours which are classified as both daffodils and narcissi. I believe that the basic defining factor for these is not so much the colour but the number of blooms per stem. Daffodils only ever have one bloom per stem and narcissi have two or more. Of course, in a flower show you will find mostly cultivated and hybridised plants. The wild flowers are, however, as I describe.
Actually, to be strictly correct, all of the species (about 50 wild varieties) are called 'Narcisssus' and 'Daffodil' is a name used to describe only some of them (most gardeners would call flowers with larger and ofen uniformly-coloured blooms but, importantly, only one bloom per stem 'Daffodil'.
This page explains the differences and has a lot of interesting information, too:
A Daffodil is basically a bulbous plant - generally hardy in the garden and Spring Flowering. There are many types of daffodils - ranging in height from just a few inches through to more than a foot.
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@JudyEv (381952)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Jul 16
I didn't know that about the difference between narcissi and daffodil. I've been to a daffodil show in Tasmania and I'm pretty sure there were blooms of different colours. Maybe if I'd read the prize tickets they might have said 'narcissi'.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Jul 16
@Inlemay If we look around the globe there are many colourful and attractive stamps around, but despite being the birthplace of the postage stamp Britain tends to issue plain and simple ones.
I recall a time when commemorative and seasonal stamps were produced and issued for general use, whereas now they seem to be restricted to special collector sales.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
4 Jul 16
I wondered if that was a daffodil
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
19 Jul 16
Who says pics don't attract? I like vintage stuff and the image for your discussion immediately caught my eye. Had to come over to read more. Didn't know another name for daffodil was Narzisse flower. Both names fit!
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