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Flower Name
Emperor
Division:
Colors:
Y - Y
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
William Backhouse
Country:
England, UK
Year of first flowering:
pre 1869, registered with the RHS
Seed Parent:
Pollen Parent:
Chromosomes:
21
Pedigree Chart:
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as a parent:
22 times as seed, 2 times as pollen
Descendants:
Special Class:
ADS Historics
Comments:
Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, brilliant greenish yellow, with a darker tone at midrib beneath, somewhat inflexed, plane, overlapping one-third; the inner segments with margins wavy; corona cylindrical at base, flared in upper part, loosely ribbed, vivid yellow, with mouth expanded and lightly frilled, rim flanged, notched and crenate. Resembles a N. bicolor var. lorifolius of almost twice the size.
The RHS has a “parental note” that states the following: Hybrid between N. bicolor and N. pseudonarcissus
Synonyms:
'Maximus######'
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