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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17  looking through my photos. I remember finding a double daffodil up in Scotland  |
This is
Narcissus 'Van Sion' (more correctly
N. 'Telamonius Plenus' under the rules of nomenclature for cultivated plants, but apparently nobody likes that name much). It was known in cultivation in London by 1620 (but probably dates from the 1500s) and is still grown, but it apparently also has a long history as a naturalised plant, at least in western Britain and said to be especially well naturalised in Ireland.
It really ought to have its own entry in our floras - I am actually quite surprised that it is in neither Stace nor in Sell & Murrell. Its origin is unknown, but my own guess is that it is
N. hispanicus x obvallaris.
Does something that has retained its characters for nearly 400 years, probably longer, count as aberrant? In my own vice-county (Wigtownshire) it looks quite at home without being intrusive in riverside woodland and I quite like it.
Alan