Apricot Distinction
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Classification:
3 Y-O[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

P. van Deursen

Established 1887. Sassenheim, Holland; Heemskerk

P. van Deursen
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1942
Awards:

AM Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1942.AM Haarlem 1942; 
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments very broad in outline, rounded or squarish at apex, fairly prominently mucronate, pale orange-yellow, spreading, overlapping half; the inner segments shouldered at base, inflexed, with margins wavy and incurving; corona disc-shaped, deeply and closely ribbed, deep orange, mouth 6-lobed, rim minutely dentate.

According to White Flower Farm 1972 catalog: “The petals, believe it or not, are apricot in color; the strong, frilled cup a very deep matching shade. This is probably the first new color break in Narcissi in the past 25 years. A small cup.”

Synonyms:

'Apricot Attraction'

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Apricot DistinctionApricot Distinction, 3 Y-O, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1942
Photo #44996 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaApricot DistinctionApricot Distinction, 3 Y-O, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1942
Photo #44995 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaApricot distinctionApricot Distinction, 3 Y-O, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1942
Photo #27212 P. de Jager and Sons, the NetherlandsApricot distinctionApricot Distinction, 3 Y-O, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1942
Photo #21713 Heath Family Archives, USAApricot distinctionApricot Distinction, 3 Y-O, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1942
Photo #6851 Brent and Becky Heath, USAApricot distinctionApricot Distinction, 3 Y-O, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1942
Photo #218 ADS Photo, USA