Spring Daffodil. Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Lent Lilly, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Here's a pretty two-colored Daffodil. It goes by several names such as Lent Lilly and Wild Daffodil. Botanists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries liked to call it a 'Woodland (sylvestris) Narcissus, white with a yellow calyx.' I rather favor the vernacular Lent Lilly because it refers in English to the forty days before Easter and in Dutch to the first of the four seasons, Spring: 'de Lente', when the days begin to lengthen. Much prettier, I think, for that season than 'Voorjaar', 'before the year's planting'. And, indeed, 'Lent' and 'Lente' are cognate words.

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