Data specific to Daffodils (Edit)
Division: Division 4 - Double
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): Orange
Description: see comment
Bloom season: Spring
Special Classes: ADS Historics
Hybridizer: unknown
Year of registration: Registered - 1st flowering 1731
Links: DaffSeek - Daffodil Database
RHS - Daffodil Register

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Orange
White
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Provides winter interest
Erosion control
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Gophers/Voles
Rabbit Resistant
Squirrels
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Bulbs
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant
Child plants: one child plant

Common names
  • Double Daffodil
  • Double Narcissus
  • Daffodil
Also sold as:
  • Albus Plenus Aurantius
  • Fried Eggs
  • Eggs and Bacon
  • Incomparabilis Plena

Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Nov 5, 2014 1:10 PM concerning plant:
    A historically famous and significant double daffodil from 1731. Considered rare.
    Some confusion regarding correct name identification noted on the ADS site.
    Old House Gardens relates - 'This exuberant double has been a cottage garden favorite for centuries, much like its fraternal twin ‘Butter and Eggs’. With whorls of cream-colored petals and ruffled bits of orange, it’s not only one of the best doubles for the South but, as E.A. Bowles wrote in the 1930s, “still grown wherever gardeners are wise enough to value old plants of reliably vigorous constitution.” 4 W-O, 16-18”, zones 5b-8b.'
  • Posted by scvirginia on Jul 9, 2022 11:15 PM concerning plant:
    Description from Daffodils, narcissus, and how to grow them... by Arthur Martin Kirby, 1907, p.202-3:
    ORANGE PHOENIX. (C. 17 in...)
    Popularly known as Eggs and Bacon and as N. incomparabilis albus aurantius plenus. Robust and free flowering. The large double flowers are composed of white petals with an orange coloured centre.

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