Mount Whitney
Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Oregon Bulb Farms

Oregon Bulb Farms
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, before 1951
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

According to Jan deGraaff’s Record book of the 1951 descriptions of flowers then being grown at Oregon Bulb Farm: “4 ¼ inch diameter; very full petaled round perianth; trumpet opens ivory but quickly develops into white; irregularly ruffled mouth.” Record book gives a classification of Div 1c [1 W-W].

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