Fls. numerous per stem; perianth and other petaloid segments white; the outer whorl broadly ovate, spreading, overlapping; inner whorls strongly inflexed; corona segments very short, clustered among the inner whorls of petaloid segments, yellow. Scented.

According to The American Horticultural Society’s 1937 issue of the The American Daffodil Year Book Helen M. Fox’s article “Narcissi in old French Gardens” states “There is the Narcissus of Constantinople which, at the tip of its stem, throws twelve flowers with whiteleaves (segments) and thick ones, accompanied in its center with other little yellow leaves, as in a calyx.”

The Seed Parent of N. tazetta subsp. lacticolor   is better known as its synonym  ‘Chinese Sacred Lily’.