Description
N. × odorus ‘Plenus’ (Double Campernelle)
4Y-Y
[Double Jonquil, 10]
(uncertain origin, pre-1861)
Just as possible as different forms or species of Poet daffodils throwing double-flowered sports, there might be more than one clone of the Double Campernelle. Naturally, Hartland offers the “Rare, and most beautifully perfumed” “Queen Anne’s Carnation-Scented Jonquil” alongside “The Giant or Monster Jonquil of Ireland”, “very double, and highly perfumed”, also “very scarce in Ireland” (1885). The degree of doubling is very variable, and our flowers are no less double than some of those shown in early photographs in bulb catalogues. From a positively shaggy, fully double flower to a handful of reluctant extra petaloids half-heartedly occupying the cup, the Double Campernelle tends to have an outermost whorl of six well-formed perianth segments. The entire flower is intense aureolin; the very depths of its centre glows soft orange.
