Lizard Light
Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

Michael Percival Williams

b 1903 d 1963

St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Michael Percival Williams
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1947
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.

Chromosomes:
27
Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, with prominent white mucro, spreading, somewhat concave, especially near apex, overlapping half; the inner segments not much narrower, more nearly plane, with margins nicked; corona short funnel-shaped, ribbed, orange, shading to strong orange at rim, mouth straight, frilled, rim deeply notched, with lobes overlapping.

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Lizard LightLizard Light, 2 Y-O, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1947
Photo #41973 Carlos van der Veek, the Netherlands