Powder Pink
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)
Year of first flowering:
1954
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, 1965
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.

Seed Parent: 
Loch Maree 2 W-P 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1940
Easter Morn x Riva
Loch Maree
Pollen Parent: 
Dawnglow 1 W-P 
Crawford E. Radcliff, Australia
Year Registered: 1935
Rosary x Pink o' Dawn
Dawnglow
Seedling Number:
P45/2
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 115 mm wide; perianth segments ivory white, overlapping; corona soft apricot pink, with rim flanged.

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Powder pinkPowder Pink, 2 W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #5144 Grant E. Mitsch, USA