Primrose Phoenix
Classification:
4 Y-Y[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Unknown

Unknown
Registered:
Yes, before 1902
Awards:

AM 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 Royal Horticultural Society in 1902.AM 1902; 
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Fertility:
Believed to be Seed fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, primrose yellow; perianth and other petaloid segments in numerous whorls, fairly regular superimposed, the center whorls clustered, strongly inflexed, with margins tightly incurled.

A description according to Daffodils, narcissus, and how to grow them as a hardy plants for cut… 1907 by Arthur Martin Kirby, “A much admired variety with large double flowers of a primrose yellow.”

According to Peter Barr’s 1909 Daffodil Catalog: “A beautiful Double Incomparabilis Daffodil recently introduced, and of quite distinct shade of color. The flowers are large and of beautiful form, color a soft self-lemon, height 20 inches.”

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Primrose PhoenixPrimrose Phoenix, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, 1902
Photo #60219 Vee Kozma, USAPrimrose PhoenixPrimrose Phoenix, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, 1902
Photo #45558 Barr Catalog, EnglandPrimrose PhoenixPrimrose Phoenix, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, 1902
Photo #43528 Albert F. Calvert, EnglandPrimrose phoenixPrimrose Phoenix, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, 1902
Photo #28517 Waltz Brothers Catalog, USAPrimrose phoenixPrimrose Phoenix, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, 1902
Photo #25521 Barr Catalog, England