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Flower Name

Sir Watkin

Division: 

2 - Large-Cupped Info

Colors: 

Y - Y

Season: 

Early to Mid-Season

Height: 

Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)

Hybridizer: 

W. Pickstone

Country: 

England, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1868, registered with the RHS

Chromosomes: 

21

Fertility: 

Seed fertile

Used as a parent: 

6 times as seed

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Special Class:
ADS Historics

Awards:

FCC 1844; 

Comments: 

Fl. 112 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt or truncate, prominently mucronate, light greenish yellow, spreading or a little inflexed, overlapping 1/3 or less; inner segments nearly acute, with margins wavy or recurved; corona funnel-shaped, more or less ribbed, vivid yellow, slightly tinged orange, with mouth straight, often deeply 6-lobed and overlapping, frilled, rim minutely and irregularly crenate.

Synonyms: 

'Giant Daffodil', 'James Dickson', 'Mountain Daffodil', 'Star Narcissus', 'The Welsh Peerless', 'Watkin'

 

 

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