Conspicuus
Classification:
3 Y-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

William Backhouse

b 1807 d 1869

Wolsingham, Durham, England

William Backhouse
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1869
Awards:

FCC Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1886.FCC 1886; 
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.

Chromosomes:
21
Fertility:
Believed to be Seed fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. star-shaped; perianth segments ovate, blunt, opening deep yellow, becoming sulfur yellow, with slight white mucro, spreading, overlapping a quarter; corona long cup-shaped, strongly ribbed, yellow, stained orange, with bright scarlet-orange at rim, mouth straight and more or less tightly frilled.

From Peter Barr’s Ye Narcissus or Daffodyl Flowre and hys Roots (1884) which says that the ‘Barrii’ type/classification included crosses of “Poeticus x Pseudo Narcissus, or perhaps Incomparabilis x Poeticus.”

Synonyms:

'Barrii Conspicuus'

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ConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #57024 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #55722 Drew Mc Farland, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #33489 Rose Bradley, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #32974 Rose Bradley, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #17863 Albert F. Calvert, EnglandConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #15932 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #15931 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #13953 Kirby Fong, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #13327 Becky Fox Matthews, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #13326 Becky Fox Matthews, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #12766 Bob Isaak, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #12483 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #12482 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #11356 Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs, USAConspicuusConspicuus, 3 Y-YYO, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #6177 Willis H. Wheeler, USA