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Classification:
2 W-OOY[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson

b 1868 d 1953

East Keal, Lincolnshire, England; Shovell, Somerset; Presteigne, Radnorshire (now Powys), Wales

Alexander (Alec) M. WilsonAlexander (Alec) M. Wilson
, Wales, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1944
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1951.AM(e) 1951; 
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:
2 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 108 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, prominently mucronate, with margins slightly incurving, waxy smooth, of thick substance, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, shouldered at base, inflexed and twisted; corona cup-shaped, light orange, with a slightly brighter tone outside, paling to yellow and white at rim, mouth loosely ribbed, straight, a little frilled.

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HeavenHeaven, 2 W-OOY, Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson, Wales, 1944
Photo #31428 RHS Yearbook, EnglandHeavenHeaven, 2 W-OOY, Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson, Wales, 1944
Photo #29009 John Swain, Ltd., England