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Doctor Hugh

3 - Small-Cupped

W - GOO

Mid-Season to Late

Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)

Brian S. Duncan

Rathowen Daffodils

Northern Ireland, UK

1975

Mahmoud

Don Carlos

D41

Pollen fertile

3 times as seed, 20 times as pollen

AM 2001; AM(e) 1986; 

Fl. 110 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, truncate, prominently mucronate, pure white, spreading, shallowly concave, margins minutely incurling at apex, smooth, regular, overlapping half; inner segments more narrowly ovate, slightly mucronate, slightly inflexed, margins a little wavy; cup is disc-shaped, ribbed, opening deep orange, becoming yellow-orange, with green at base, mouth lightly frilled, deeply split, with overlapping lobes. Resembles a larger 'Omagh' of heavier substance with purer white perianth.

Named in memory of Doctor Hugh Watson, a founding member of the Northern Ireland Daffodil Group and a dear friend and traveling companion of the Duncans.