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

Percival D. Williams

b 1865 d 1935

St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Percival D. Williams

From 1914 RHS Daffodil Yearbook

Percival D. Williams
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1907
Awards:

FCC(m)(g) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition

Qualified for garden decoration

Qualified as a market cultivar for cutting.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1926.FCC(m)(g) 1926; 

AM(m)(g) 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 for garden decoration

Qualified as a market cultivar for cutting.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1925.AM(m)(g) 1925; 

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 1925.AM Haarlem 1925; 
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:
24
Fertility:
Usually sterile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fls 2-3 per stem, 60 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, truncate, prominently mucronate or with margins a little incurling at apex, milk white, flushed primrose yellow at base, spreading, slightly concave, somewhat ribbed, overlapping up to one-third; the inner segments shouldered at base, somewhat inflexed, twisted or with margins inward rolling; corona bowl-shaped, ribbed, opening yellow-orange, becoming scarlet-orange, with faint green at base, mouth straight or a little expanded, slightly wavy, with rim minutely notched. Scented. Note: Parentage is Poetz.

Description according to Calvert’s 1925 Catalog: “brilliant orange scarlet eye.”

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos or historic images  

MedusaMedusa, 8 W-O, Percival D. Williams, England, 1907
Photo #50397 Drew Mc Farland, USAMedusaMedusa, 8 W-O, Percival D. Williams, England, 1907
Photo #47262 Drew Mc Farland, USAMedusaMedusa, 8 W-O, Percival D. Williams, England, 1907
Photo #47261 Drew Mc Farland, USAMedusaMedusa, 8 W-O, Percival D. Williams, England, 1907
Photo #43504 Albert F. Calvert, EnglandMedusaMedusa, 8 W-O, Percival D. Williams, England, 1907
Photo #18139 Lillian A. Guernsey, USA