Oregon Narcissus, 1850

Miner Toi Kee displays narcissus grown for the Chinese New Year celebration holding a water pipe and incense in Jacksonville, Oregon 1850’s

 

 

“A genus that is very complex and burdened with numerous uncertainties”

— Schultes & Schultes description of Narcissus (aka Daffodils) from ‘Systema Vegetabilium’ 1829