Have you ever heard of the Narcissus plant?
I've heard the name Narcissus before, but I didn't know it was a plant, no. What is it?
The more common names would be a daffodil, jonquil, etc.. they are all members of the Narcissus variety
Oh I know what a daffodil is, duh. My sister actually has made paintings of them before. She's incredibly talented.
The genus has about 50 species/varieties, but the scientific name is just not that well known.
Scientific names and taxonomic nomenclature are kind of arcane to most people, yeah. To be fair though, you don't need to really know the genus/species unless you're a scientist.
It's kinda funny, apparently the narcissus word comes from the Green word for intoxicated (narcotic) - but of course these flowers do not have that kind of an affect on people.
Haha, certainly not the way poppies do, as the Wicked Witch of the West taught us.
Wicked Witch of the West
The Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum as the antagonist in his classic children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900). In Baum's subsequent "Oz" novels, it is the Nome King who is the principal villain; the Wicked Witch of the West is rarely even referred to again after her death in the first book.
The witch's most popular depiction was in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's
Narcissus (plant)
Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring perennial plants of the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. Various common names including daffodil, daffadowndilly, narcissus and jonquil are used to describe all or some members of the genus. "Narcissus" has conspicuous flowers with six petal-like tepals surmounted by a cup- or trumpet-shaped corona. The flowers are generally white or yellow (also orange or pink in garden varieties), with either uniform or contrasting coloured tepals and corona.
"Narcissus" were well known