Perhaps because they are native to Western Europe, daffodils never received the adulation that was awarded to the more eastern-dwelling tulip. Nevertheless, to the leader of the Ottoman Turks, it was the daffodil that ruled the courts flanking the Bosporus in the 16th century. And the greatest of these were those of Suleiman, the kanuni or "Lawgiver" as he was known to his admiring citizens, or the "Magnificent" to peoples of the West who have tended to admire militant conquerors.