Warspite
Classification:
3 W-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse

b 1857 d 1921

Hereford, Herefordshire, England

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, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1921
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 1924.AM 1924; 
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.

Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments very broad, pure white, with broad midrib showing, overlapping half; the inner segments more nearly ovate, square-shouldered at base; corona disc-shaped, orange-yellow, with a broad band of strong orange at rim, mouth ribbed and widely expanded, split in places and overlapping, frilled.

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WarspiteWarspite, 3 W-YYO, Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England, 1921
Photo #49096 U.S. National Arboretum, USA