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Daffodil details
Waldorf Astoria
Registered? |
Yes |
Division |
4 |
Perianth colour(s) |
W |
Corona colour(s) |
P |
Originator name |
Brian S. Duncan |
Registrant name |
Rathowen Daffodils |
Year of registration |
1987 |
Seed parent |
‘Pink Pageant’ |
Pollen parent |
sdlg 241 (‘Passionale’ x ‘Polonaise’) |
Seedling number |
634 |
Description |
Fl. 105 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments in three whorls successively slightly shorter, very broad, somewhat truncate, only very slightly mucronate, very deeply overlapping; the outer whorl reflexed, plane, with margins slightly incurled; the second whorl more nearly spreading, with margins incurved, sometimes loosely folded along midrib; the centre whorl inflexed, with margins tightly infolded, sometimes twisted; corona segments half the length of the petaloid segments, opposite and interspersed among them, pink (shading from 25D to C). Late |
Synonym(s) |
none |
Award(s) |
AM(e) 1996 |
Date when entry last modified |
15 July 2015 |
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