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Diolite

2 - Large-Cupped

Y - YYO

Early to Mid-Season

Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)

Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson & Gwendolen Evelyn

Wales, UK

pre 1930, registered with the RHS

Hospodar?

A.M. Wilson 2Y-R seedling

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

5 times as seed, 2 times as pollen

AM Haarlem 1938; AM(e) 1932; 

Crown clear yellow edged with bright orange-red.

According to The American Horticultural Society's 1937 issue of the The American Daffodil Year Book, B. Y. Morrison's article “Daffodil Novelty Trials, 1936” states: “Diolite was all that memory painted. First seen in 1931 with covetous eyes, it has been until now a vivid memory. The perianth is a tender clear yellow color and has something of the gay grace of carriage that makes Folly so remarkable. The cup is the same color with a clear band of orange -red that is fairly luminous. I shall want hundreds of this some day when its prices has come down.”