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Flower Name

Firebrand

Division: 

3 - Small-Cupped Info

Colors: 

WWY - R

Season: 

Mid-Season

Height: 

Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)

Hybridizer: 

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

Country: 

England, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1897, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Princess Mary

Pollen Parent:

N. radiiflorus var. poetarum

Seedling Number: 

481

Chromosomes: 

14

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

3 times as seed, 1 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Special Class:
ADS Historics

Comments: 

Creamy white perianth, intense fiery red cup; Fl. star-shaped; perianth segments ovate, acute, not prominently mucronate, creamy white, shaded lemon yellow at base, spreading or a little inflexed, with margins wavy and sometimes incurling, overlapping at base only; corona cup-shaped, ribbed, brilliant orange-red, with mouth straight and even, rim crenate. Parent Note: Beacon is the possible seed parent.

Cart.& Goodwin catalog of 1914 description: “creamy white perianth, intense fiery red cup”. From Rev. Joseph Jacob's book Daffodils circa 1910: “Firebrand is a small bloom, but it has one of the reddest little cups of any daffodil.” (Jacob's book was part of the “Present Day” Gardening series).

 

 

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