Be careful. I am sure you know what your doing with the plant, but some people may not. ALL species of the Narcissus in the Amaryllis family contain the alkaloid poison Lycorine. People have died accidently eating the bulb, mistaking it for onion and cooking with it. The poison is very strong in the bulb, but it is also in the leaves. Florists can suffer problems of "Daffodil Itch" and Erythema in the hands. I have Daffodils and love them, but not a chemist and make sure that if I venture with anything that I do a lot of homework and cross reference about it. Wouldn't want anything bad to happen to anyone, so be careful please.
Just look at them instead: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. Wordsworth.
This is a beautiful poem. Thank you for posting it. Guess Wordsworth was ahead of the time when it was written. Perfect poem to add to the postings of Daffodil.
