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Flower Name

Emperor

Division: 

1 - Trumpet (Long Cupped) Info

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:

N. bicolor

Pollen Parent:

N. pseudonarcissus

Chromosomes: 

21

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

22 times as seed, 2 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
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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