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What is the origin of daffodils?
Narcissus is a perennial herb of Amaryllidaceae and Narcissus, also known as Ling Boxian, Jinzhan Yintai, Luoshenhua, Yulinglong and Xue Hua. It is a variety of daffodils, also known as Chinese daffodils. Introduced from Italy in Tang Dynasty, it belongs to narcissus tazetta l variety. It has been cultivated in China for more than 1000 years. After thousands of years of breeding, it has created the present variety, which belongs to one of the top ten traditional famous flowers in China.

Narcissus bulbs are oval, the roots are fibrous roots, the color is milky white, fleshy, and the texture is fragile and easy to break. The leaves are linear and flat, about 20 ~ 40 cm long and 8 ~ 15 mm wide, with frost on the leaves. Umbellies with 4-8 flowers, usually yellow and white.

It can be divided into single valve type and double valve type.

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a couple named Yao in a small village. They gave birth to a beautiful and kind daughter, and the family lived happily together. One day, when my daughter went out, she was taken fancy to by local tyrants and wanted to catch her as a wife. The girl refused to be humiliated, so she threw herself into the river. God took pity on her chastity and turned her soul into a beautiful daffodil.