Waldorf Astoria
Classification:
4 W-P[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1987
Registrant:

Rathowen Daffodils

Rathowen Daffodils
, Northern Ireland, UK
Awards:
Seed Parent: 
Pink Pageant 4 W-P 
Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland
Year of first flowering: 1965
Helen Richardson seedling (Falaise x Debutante) x Polonaise
Pink Pageant
Pollen Parent: 
241 (
Passionale 2 W-P 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1956
Rose of Tralee x Irish Rose
Passionale
x
Polonaise 2 W-P 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1974
Daybreak x Merry Widow
Polonaise
)
Seedling Number:
D634
Pedigree Chart:
Used as parent:
3 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. 105 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments in three whorls successively slightly shorter, very broad, somewhat truncate, only very slightly mucronate, very deeply overlapping; the outer whorl reflexed, plane, with margins slightly incurled; the second whorl more nearly spreading, with margins incurved, sometimes loosely folded along midrib; the center whorl inflexed, with margins tightly infolded, sometimes twisted; corona segments half the length of the petaloid segments, opposite and interspersed among them, pink.

Origin of Name

Part of Brian Duncan’s “Hotel Series” of white and pink double daffodils. Named for the hotel in New York City, New York which is over a century old and considered one of the first ‘grand hotels’ in the world.