Pink Select
Classification:
2 W-OOP[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

L. van Leeuwen and Son

L. van Leeuwen and Son
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1947
Awards:

AM Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1946.AM Haarlem 1946; 
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 + 1B
Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, creamy white, spreading, plane, overlapping one-third; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, square-shouldered at base, with margins wavy; corona funnel-shaped, smooth, opening pale yellow, becoming apricot orange, with soft pink at rim, mouth expanded and frilled.

Synonyms:

'Pink Favourite'

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Pink SelectPink Select, 2 W-OOP, L. van Leeuwen and Son, the Netherlands, 1947
Photo #44595 Brenda Lyon, Australia