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On what are you basing this?
I highly doubt's the case, as it's a Mexican name....

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I see this flower thing as a speculation too, but what has Mexican to do with it to make it unlikely? I checked: narcissus in Spanish is narciso, and dahlia in Spanish is dalia, so at least the words seem to work out for me.The dahlia even seems to be the national flower of Mexico:
http://www.dahlia.org/basic1.htmlSo why not coin a name with it?
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it might be invented by the author as well. If you are named after the book Narcedalia Piedrotas, there should be some sources in Spanish maybe , about where the author got that name from ^^
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