Daffodils: Beautiful (and Deadly) - Why knowing botany is so valuable 

Daffodils are the easiest flowers to draw. In the town that I grew up in there was a daffodil festival every year. All of the school children would draw or paint art featuring daffodils. One student from each grade k-12 would win first place in their grade, Out of those students the best one would be featured on a T-shirt. At the end of the festival, art and daffodils would be sold as a fund raiser. Even students could sell up to three peaces of art and make money off of it. Sadly the school stopped doing the festival around 2013. If I recall right, it had been a thing for around 100 years at that point. Almost as old as the mayday festival.

Planting daffodils around new fruit trees or bushes will keep moles and burrowing rodents from eating the stalks and roots under the snow in the winter. Plus if you have them around the tree the bees will already be accustomed to coming to that area when the fruit tree starts to push flowers, therefore increasing your pollination rate giving you more fruit.

I'm a daffodil picker , I've done 20 seasons, many pickers get a severe rash ( also known as lily rash ) , I call it sapatitus . I think that the variety Carlton ( the bulb ) is being used to treat altzeimers

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You just might have saved my garden from being totally trashed. In the past month deer have taken flower buds and sprigs off pieris and yellow tree peony. Rabbits have burrowed everywhere, Young leaves just disappeared from evergreen azaleas, privet and something tiny, unknown has dug to my tulip bulbs, but scattering the new leaves. I am so distressed that in 80 tears I haven't known such destruction. I do have camellias, clematis, narcissi and deciduous azaleas, but something (pigeon?) has robbed two rhododendrons of buds, and the winter flowering jasmine reduced to stalks. Thank you for this video.

You can find old, abandoned homesteads by driving the back roads in spring and looking for daffodils growing.

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Well, that's bizarre! When I was a teenager I used to eat daffodil petals; sometimes on their own or sometimes in a cheese sandwich. They tasted nice, looked fantastic with a meal and not one tummy ache or feeling sick. I'm now aged 72 and still here! lol!

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the time lapses are really nice, and add a very classy beautiful touch.

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I was doing my best for a few years to learn my local flora but some stuff happened and i kinda lost track. It feels so awkward not knowing basic food when that must have been the first thing people used to learn.

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Thanks for the info on Daffodils! This came at the perfect time. Was outside a few days ago and noticed that they were blooming! 🌼

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I did what you did in the clip and was surprised that it did not taste bad. A bit later I felt a scary burning in my mouth and throat.

They are not only beautiful, many daffodils are also incredibly fragrant!!! I love being surrounded by several varieties, especially tazettas, with their gorgeous scent spreading around the air; I am always looking for new scents and really my collection of daffodils lead me to discover new scents for my fragrant garden at a whole new level!!!

Heard a story from my professor many years ago, he told us he'd read that a shop kept the garden plants including the daffodil bulbs to close to the veg and some Asian people who spoke very little English, bought them as they mistook them for small onions and were subsequently hospitalised for chopping them up and putting them in fried veg!

Great video! I love those hyperlapses!

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Really valuable information, especially if you are a pet owner. Keep petalling :-) these fun and important Facts. Love it!

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Interesting and they symbolize rebirth and new beginnings..they are more than cool...but they are exquisite! Their scent is aromatic.

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Once I found out Daffodils could kill me, I requested a restraining order.

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Really cool info we have a patch of daffodils at home that somehow mutated to grow double corollas. always thought that was interesting

This is like 2 months down my watch later and I am missing out on looking at some close up myself. I did spend a lot of time looking at early bloomers in the backyard to understand where bees are coming from. How did you light the time lapse against the black background?

Plant nerd here! Do one on Foxglove! Another toxic yet beautiful plant... The history is pretty interesting. Im about to surf your channel (new subscriber).

The basic rule that I tell folks is: If it's a bulb, and it does not smell or taste like an allium, its best to not eat it. There are LOADS of wonderful, tasty edible flowers, many with edible tubers (not bulbs!) that we like to grow and eat .. daffodils aren't one of 'em 😉

Next to Rose's daffs are my absolute favourite!!!!.🙃🦋

Loved the video, personally for me, I am allergic to them, where by i come out in a prickly red rash if i touch them or even just brush against them.. the rash will usually spread all over and last about 3 days.. I've "tested" different ones, they're all the same.. love em/hate em..👍

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ALWAYS my Favorite Flower ! 💙

At the start of early spring to very late winter we get millions of daffodils sprouting all over the UK

I would love to know what camera is being used. The video looks so crisp

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Daffodils are actually my favorite flowers

Great! I planted my roses in a daffodil patch! My daffodils look different.

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Great info - We were just admiring our Daffodils and Tulips that are coming up in our garden here outside Boston. Unfortunately, someone/thing is eating all the tulip plants. *not happy*

Very cool videos, I was wondering if you have done one about Sassafras? Growing up my grandpa taught me that you can chew on the leaves to freshen stale breath, i remember it makes your mouth VERY slimey. Later in life i learned that its considered a carcinogen, so I don't do it anymore.

My dad had us plant 400-800 daffodils every year as kids. I hated them. I used to run over with the lawnmower when no one was looking lol. Lovely flower but getting in my way lawncutting was a bloody nisance.

Daffodils, sunflowers, and species orchids are my favorite flowers.

Are those the same as March lillies? Jonquills?

Does baking neutralize the toxic alkaloids in daffodil bulbs? Would it taste comparably to baked onions?

I have daffodils growing under my roses and both the daffodils and the roses are doing fine. So it's only in the vase that they fight each other, not in the ground.

Thanks Daffo-Daddy!

My girlfriend is in hospital because she ate some daffodil bulbs thinking it was onions... She's alright and she should be out in the spring 🤣

In 1995 , I was traveling past a daffodil farm , which had in excess of 1800 varieties of Daffodils . The only bulbs that I know are good for eating , are Onions , or Garlic . I would be very wary of eating Daffodils , Narcissus , Jonquils , or Crocus - the only part of which is edible , are the stamens , from which Saffron is obtained .

I pick the yellow ones and make tea. 💛 it makes me feel nauseous 😫 and for some reason 🙃 it's calming. I have them frozen in my freezer and I still make tea with them🤪

Can you please talk about garden snails and slugs? Also great video!!!

Pretty sure that like lilies (Lilium), the tepals are both sepals (outer whorl) and petals (inner whorl, but otherwise identical). The tube/cup (also in a few other Amaryllids like Pancratium and Hymenocallis, also toxic but less familiar to Yanks because they are not very cold hardy) is formed from fused staminodes (sterile stamens). Tepals are fairly common among monocots; all your "typical flowers" were dicots (& even all in the rose family, if memory serves). Do you know botany? What would have been helpful would be hints on how to distinguish dormant daffodil bulbs from dormant onion bulbs, or a very strong warning that this is virtually impossible (as with Camassia vs Zigadenus), so only harvest what you know (i.e. planted yourself) or from plants that are growing leaves (onions and garlics stink differently than other bulbs) if not blooming (maybe it is unwise to underestimate the ignorance or stupidity of urban people, but I haven't met anyone who would confuse Narcissus flowers with an Allium umbel; some other toxic Amaryllids could be confused with onion blossoms, but never those of Narcissus).

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Bullwinkle was the first person I heard about daffodils from. Crazy yeah, but I lived inner city. Not many flowers there.

Didn't I read somewhere that people were so hungry in the channel Islands at the end of ww2 that they died after eating daf bulbs thinking they were onions?

I'm 51 years old and love plants , trees , all of mother nature's plants . But I learned few years ago that the poinsettia plant has tiny flowers , and the colorful flowers are really leaves not pettles.

In the movie Smurfs 2, there is a Smurf named Vanity Smurf, and he has a daffodil on his hat, which makes sense because of the genus narcissus, and the link between vanity and narcissism. It also refers to the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus, who died and was reborn as a white and yellow flower, probably a daffodil. It goes back to the ancient religious tradition of so-called "dying-rising vegetation gods". In another Greek myth, the character Hyacinth dies and his blood is reborn as the hyacinth flower; in Norse mythology, the god Balder is killed by a mistletoe arrow and he is said to one day return or be resurrected. In Phoenician-Greco-Roman mythology, the character Adonis dies and his blood is reborn as the anemone flower (an alternative myth involves red poppies). The Hittite god Telipinu (who disappears and reappears, as opposed to dying and being resurrected) is associated with the oak tree. The Sumerian god Dumuzi is associated with the cedar tree; the Egyptian god Osiris was resurrected as grains of wheat; the Phrygian (i.e. ancient Turkey) god Attis hanged on a pine tree and was resurrected as spring vegetation; the Ugaritic god Baal Hadad (from ancient Syria) was resurrected as fruit; in Roman mythology, Pyramus died and his blood was reborn as mulberries; in Irish mythology, Miach died and was reborn as 365 herbs; in another Irish myth, the lovers Naoise and Deirdre died and were reborn as pine trees; in Algonquin Native American mythology, the god Chakekenapok was killed and then reborn as grapevines; in Penobscot Native American mythology, the character Corn Goddess was killed and then she was reborn as corn; in the Shinto mythology of Japan, the goddess Ogetsu-no-hime died and her dead body was reborn as rice, wheat, soy beans, red beans, and millet; and Jesus hanged on a "tree" i.e. the cross, and was resurrected. Also, his body was bread and his blood was wine.

I love it when George Clooney teaches me botany

Great video and very informative. Keep up the amazing work.

So daffodifferent!

Wonderful

I learned something! (and I also really dug the time-lapse sequences in this!)

I live in the tropics so I have nothing to fear from those monsters!

Animals know/sense/smell toxins & avoid them. This is the reason I keep nothing but poisonous plants around my place. I'm not bothered with unwanted animals and none of of them are injured. At the same token, these bulbous plants often have only a seasonal flowering period. I also find that bulbs require dedicated fertilizing. Deer, squirrels, chipmunks are the worst.

Good stuff

at 5:59 could you just sacrifice (cut ) one open to compare it to an onion?

There was an episode on TV that had two “hippies” who eat the bulbs, they almost died... Jack Webb saved their lives.

in the same way as acorns is there a processing method that removes the toxins?

Wondering if this could be used as insecticide. Washing veges well before eating of course.

my father used to plant them around the perimeter of his garden to keep the wildlife from eating his harvest.

So.... What's the difference? Is it that onions have one stem blooming out of the bulb and daffodils multiple?

There is a ranch named Daffodil Hill in Volcano, California.

Funny thing whenever I ended up going to the hospital as a child I would get these in my room which I find. Ironic now knowing they are toxic

DON'T EAT RANDOM PLANTS!!! That's a lesson that I learned well, After eating a piece of an elephant ear plant, And it kinda gave me PTSD and anxiety, But that's just me. BUT STILL!!!!! DON'T EAT ITTTT!!

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I was with my sister when we were kids and I ate a daffodil flower once. Obviously it didn't kill me but tasted pretty naff lol 😁

Delectable tea? Or deadly poison?

I would looove *eco rebel* as a bumper sticker :)

When Haley said “film some daffoDILS” i was really hoping she’d say “daffoKILLS!”

How do you tell the difference between an onion and a Daffodil bulb?

Can you plant edible plants near it ?

My first "job" ( at 12 yrs old) was picking Daffodils for one of my teachers to sell. He had fields of them. We cut them with a pocket knife. You would end up with little cuts on your hands, and the daffodil juice would get in them and cause the cuts to turn white and crusty. Very painful.

Is there an app or something that I can take a photo of a plant it will let know if it is good or bad,, Have Parkinson's memory is not as good as it use to be