Late Daffodil Beauty

Here is one daffodil that I would imagine is not a good one for bees.  It is too prudish.  The petals overfold all the reproductive parts, kind of like there are too many petticoats, making access difficult for pollinators. Despite that, it is a lovely flower  for human eyes.  And also for noses, for it is very fragrant.  Variety is Narcissus albus plenus odoratus and it is not a modern concoction at all, dating from 1861.  

Compare it to this more typical daffodil shape of the beauty Narcissus 'Stainless' that bloomed a few weeks ago with its open-for-business trumpet and prominent anthers:

And here is the the dainty but open flower of Narcissus ‘Sun Disc,’ still a bit fresh-looking, even decorated with a bit of dewy spider webbing: 

 Another very late bloomer, it is also fragrant and much easier to grow than the fussy double which seems to complain if conditions are not perfect by reabsorbing the unopened flower.   This year has been a good year for the albi however, and I cut a bunch after I made the photographs.

 I will indulge in adding another photograph of a semi-open albus plenus for the small bonus of the white crab spider clinging to the edge of a petal! Perhaps it was using the petal as an umbrella from the rain!