narciso

One word, two flowers, and no confusion in Esperanto. English keeps daffodil for the common yellow trumpet in the garden and narcissus for the genus and the paler scented sorts, which is a distinction most English speakers cannot actually operate. Esperanto has narciso for all of them and adds a qualifier where botany requires one. If you want the wild daffodil specifically, sovaĝa narciso does the job.

The myth is a gift, so take it. Narciso was the youth who saw his reflection in a pool, could not stop looking, and stayed there until he died and a flower grew where he had been. Esperanto keeps the whole family: Narciso with a capital letter is the young man, narcisismo is narcissism, narcisisto is a narcissist, and narcisisma the adjective. That is the real -ism- and -ist- machinery working properly on a name, which makes a useful contrast with turismo five ranks earlier, where the same endings are a mirage.

Where it grows in the vocabulary. A narciso is a floro with a bulbo, a bulb, that comes up in printempo, which puts it beside tulipo, krokuso, hiacinto and lilio. A single flower head is a floro, the whole plant is a planto, and a bunch of them cut for the table is a bukedo.