Description
N. × odorus
7Y-Y or 13Y-Y
[Jonquilla or species]
(European origin, pre-1629)
The Campernelle is Parkinson’s “great Junquilia with the largest flower or cup” (1629). Strictly, the term should be used for hybrids between N. jonquilla and N. pseudonarcissus, but nowadays the Jonquilla group seems to embrace a wider variety of hybrids between N. jonquilla and either a yellow trumpet or a large-cupped daffodil. Many Campernelle stocks are offered as ‘Rugulosus’ (the Latin for “somewhat wrinkled”), which should be larger and richer gold with a “characteristic pleated mouth” (Bowles, 1934), rather than a conspicuously six-lobed margin. We hesitate to name our stock as being that, but, whatever its exact origin, it is richly perfumed and a desirable garden plant.
