Caravan
Classification:
3 Y-YYR[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1940
Hybridizer:

George Lewis

d 1962. Christchurch, New Zealand

George Lewis
, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 1958
Registrant:

David S. Bell

b 1905 d 1987

Christchurch, New Zealand; Templeton

David S. Bell
, South Island, New Zealand
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

Fl. bright yellow; perianth segments broadly ovate in outline, blunt or rounded at apex, prominently mucronate, slightly reflexed, of thick substance, overlapping half; the inner segments more nearly spreading, creased; corona shallow bowl-shaped, ribbed, bright yellow, with red at rim.

Synonyms:

'Estrellita#'

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CaravanCaravan, 3 Y-YYR, George Lewis, New Zealand, 1958
Photo #9595 Noeline McLaren, New Zealand