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the only flower so vain it drowned the boy who loved it.
means A genus of spring-flowering bulbs—daffodils and their kin—with trumpet-centered blooms, often nodding on slender stalks.
from From Greek 'narkissos', the flower tied to the myth of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who pined away gazing at his own reflection and was transformed into the bloom that bends toward water. The ancients linked the name to 'narke', meaning numbness or torpor (the same root behind 'narcotic'), perhaps because the plant's scent or sap was thought to be sedating—though whether the flower named the boy or the boy named the flower is a tangle even the Greeks didn't untie.
- name origin
- Greek youth who starved staring at his reflection
- toxic beauty
- all parts contain poisonous crystals called lycorine
- florist trick
- its sap wilts every other flower in the vase
- narcotic root
- name shares roots with narcosis and numbness
- winter rebel
- blooms while everything else is still frozen
narcissus pseudonarcissus — wild daffodil species native to spain and portugal, most common narcissus in europe
narcissus poeticus — poet's narcissus with white petals and yellow cup, native to southern france and spain
narcissus tazetta — paperwhite narcissus, clustered fragrant flowers, widely cultivated across mediterranean since ancient times