Piraeus
Classification:
4 W-R[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1988
Registrant:

Rathowen Daffodils

Rathowen Daffodils
, Northern Ireland, UK
Seed Parent: 
Monterrico 4 W-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1962
Falaise x Arbar
Monterrico
Pollen Parent: 
Doctor Hugh 3 W-GOO 
Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1975
Mahmoud x Don Carlos
Doctor Hugh
Seedling Number:
D752
Pedigree Chart:
Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. rounded; perianth and other petaloid segments in several whorls, regularly arranged, pure white; the outer whorl often more than six in number; outer whorls very broad in outline, blunt or rounded at apex and sometimes truncate, prominently mucronate, spreading, plane, overlapping half or more; inner whorls successively a little shorter, becoming inflexed, margins incurved; those at center strongly inflexed, margins tightly incurled; cup segments very short, clustered among the center petaloid segments, deep orange-red. Resembles ‘Acropolis’ but with more corona segments visible.