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Daffodil details
Weardale Perfection
Registered? |
Yes |
Division |
1 (b) |
Perianth colour(s) |
W |
Corona colour(s) |
Y |
Originator name |
W. Backhouse |
Date of first flowering |
pre1869 |
Description |
Fl. up to 127 mm wide; perianth segments broadly or very broadly ovate, blunt, only very slightly mucronate, milk white or pale sulphur, touched with the corona colour at base, inflexed, with margins wavy, somewhat creased or with broad midrib showing, of good substance, overlapping one-third; the inner segments twisted; corona cylindrical, lightly ribbed, primrose yellow, paling a little at base, mouth expanded, rim broadly and irregularly crenate and a little flanged. Resembles a larger and paler-flowered `Empress' with the corona mouth more widely expanded |
Synonym(s) |
none |
Award(s) |
FCC 1894 |
Notes |
Received FCC 1894 as 'Weardale' |
Date when entry last modified |
17 November 2016 |
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