Mission Impossible
Classification:
11a W-P[ Split-Cupped Collar ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1976
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1987
Registrant:

Richard and Elise Havens

Richard Havens b 1940, d 2014

Elise Havens, daughter of Grant E. Mitsch

Richard and Elise Havens of Hubbard, Oregon, USA, continued her father's business "Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils" from 1989 though 2015.

Richard and Elise Havens
, Oregon, USA
Seed Parent: 
[
Accent 2 W-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1960
Interim x Interlude
Accent
x (
Wild Rose 2 W-P 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1936
Mitylene x Evening
Wild Rose
x
Hillbilly 11a Y-Y 
Jac Lefeber, United States
Year Registered: 1950
Hillbilly
) ]
Pollen Parent: 
(
Pink Frost 2 W-P 
Grant Mitsch and Richard and Elise Havens, United States
Year Registered: 1984
Lough Maree x Radiation
Pink Frost
x
Accent 2 W-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1960
Interim x Interlude
Accent
)
Seedling Number:
L34/1
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed, 7 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments very broadly ovate, fairly prominently mucronate, slightly reflexed, creased, overlapping half; the inner segments smoother; corona split to base, the six segments half as long as the perianth segments and opposite and closely overlying them, deeply bi-lobed, bright pink, thickly frilled.

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Photo #12596 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAMission impossibleMission Impossible, 11a W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1987
Photo #11747 Ben Blake, USAMission impossibleMission Impossible, 11a W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1987
Photo #11746 Ben Blake, USAMission impossibleMission Impossible, 11a W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1987
Photo #11745 Ben Blake, USA