Helios
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Classification:
8 Y-Y[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

M. van Waveren and Sons

M. van Waveren and Sons

Photo of G. H. van Waveren
From 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book

M. van Waveren and Sons
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1917
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 1917.AM Haarlem 1917; 
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Chromosomes:
21
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fls several per stem; perianth segments very broad, blunt or squarish at apex, sometimes truncate, only very slightly mucronate, creamy yellow, spreading or a little reflexed, with margins wavy or incurling, overlapping half; the inner segments more usually spreading, with margins more heavily waved; corona shallow bowl-shaped, ribbed, pure yellow, mouth split in places and overlapping, more or less even, with rim crenate. ‘Poetaz’ is in the parentage.

Synonyms:

'Abundance#'

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HeliosHelios, 8 Y-Y, M. van Waveren and Sons, the Netherlands, 1917
Photo #57823 van Waveren Catalog, the Netherlands