Brilliant Lights
Classification:
2 W-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J.N. Hancock and Co.

J.N. Hancock and Co.
, Victoria, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 1956
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments very broadly ovate, rounded and sometimes split at apex, slightly mucronate, spreading or a little reflexed, somewhat concave, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, more usually spreading, with margins wavy; corona shallow bowl-shaped, closely ribbed, glowing reddish orange, with darker tones at rim, mouth widely expanded, frilled. Scented

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Brilliant lightsBrilliant Lights, 2 W-O, J.N. Hancock and Co., Australia, 1956
Photo #1300 Kirby Fong, USABrilliant lightsBrilliant Lights, 2 W-O, J.N. Hancock and Co., Australia, 1956
Photo #1299 Kirby Fong, USABrilliant lightsBrilliant Lights, 2 W-O, J.N. Hancock and Co., Australia, 1956
Photo #1298 Kirby Fong, USA