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Daffodil details
Plenissimus
Registered? |
Yes |
Division |
4 |
Perianth colour(s) |
Y |
Corona colour(s) |
Y |
Date of first flowering |
pre1629 |
Description |
Fl. large, sometimes with several centres, sometimes with green segments among the yellow; perianth and other petaloid segments in many whorls, ovate, pale yellow, with margins wavy, not much overlapping; the outer whorls spreading; the inner whorls inflexed or at centre strongly inflexed; corona segments broad, more than half as long as the petaloid segments and interspersed among them, of a deeper yellow, sometimes bi-lobed, frilled; sometimes opening with the outer whorl of the corona continuous, with pale yellow and darker yellow segments intermingled within. Resembles a taller `Grandiplenus' |
Synonym(s) |
`A Cent Feuilles' "John Tradescant's Great Rose Daffodil" "Tradescant's Great Rose Double Daffodil" `Tratus Cantus' Pseudonarcissus Major `Maximus Grandiplenus' Pseudonarcissus Major `Plenissimus' |
Award(s) |
none |
Notes |
?The same as 'Maximus Flore Pleno' |
Date when entry last modified |
21 January 2009 |
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If you have a further inquiry about the names of daffodils and/or their parents, it should be made to the International Daffodil Registrar, Melanie Underwood at the following address: RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB, UK. Tel. (+44) (0)1483 212403. E-mail: [email protected].