Maiden's Blush
Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Canon Rollo Meyer

b 1868 d 1953

Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England; Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire

Canon Rollo Meyer
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1945
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:
29
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed, 5 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. facing down; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, reflexed, creamy white, plane or with margins incurling at apex, overlapping half; the inner segments a little narrower, with margins wavy and sometimes nicked; corona cylindrical, soft yellow-pink, with cream at base, mouth slightly expanded, frilled, rim irregularly notched and crenate.

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Maiden's BlushMaiden's Blush, 2 W-P, Canon Rollo Meyer, England, 1945
Photo #54391 Kirby Fong, USA