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Will Scarlett

2 - Large-Cupped

W - O

Mid-Season to Late

Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

England, UK

pre 1898, registered with the RHS

N. abscissus

N. radiiflorus var. poetarum

14

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

9 times as seed, 11 times as pollen

FCC 1988; 

Fl. 79 mm wide; perianth segments ovate, blunt, creamy white, reflexed, often twisted, with margins strongly waved or recurved, separated; corona bowl-shaped, broad, ribbed, opening bright rich orange, often fading, with mouth expanded and deeply six-lobed. Cup is of intense fiery orange-scarlet.

A description according to the 1912 issue of the Herbert Chapman Daffodils catalog, “A most magnificent and telling flower. Substantial creamy white petals, and an enormous expanded orange-red cup. General the first flower to strike one in an exhibition stand, and a very popular plant with my customers. A rapid increaser and now much reduced in price. I have found this flower very useful in hybridising when allied with flowers of perfect form.”