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Flower Name

Galway

Division: 

2 - Large-Cupped Info

Colors: 

Y - Y

Season: 

Mid-Season

Height: 

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

Hybridizer: 

J. Lionel Richardson

Country: 

Ireland

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1943, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Royalist?

Pollen Parent:

Crocus?

Chromosomes: 

28

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

19 times as seed, 15 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Special Class:
ADS Classics

Awards:

*FCC(g) 1962; *AM(g) 1961; FCC Haarlem 1954; FCC(e) 1948; AM Haarlem 1948; AM(e) 1942; 

Comments: 

Fl. forming a double triangle, 114 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, not prominently mucronate, vivid yellow, spreading, smooth, with midrib showing, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments a little narrower, somewhat inflexed, twisted or with margins wavy; corona funnel-shaped, lightly ribbed, a little brighter in tone than the perianth, mouth expanded and more strongly ribbed, rim notched and crenate.

Origin of Name: 

Named after the fourth largest city in Ireland.

 

 

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