Papillon Blanc
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Classification:
11b W-W[ Split-Cupped Papillon ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1940
Hybridizer:

J.W.A. Lefeber

Established 1910. Lisse, Holland; Noordwijkerhout

J.W.A. Lefeber
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, 1960
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 1962.AM Haarlem 1962; 
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.

Chromosomes:
29
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
7 times as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 85 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, prominently mucronate, creamy white, spreading, concave, overlapping half or more; inner segments narrower, slightly mucronate, margins wavy; cup is split to base, the six segments more than half as long as the perianth segments and alternate to them, opening with a longitudinal band of yellow at midrib, becoming self creamy white, darker in tone than the perianth, inflexed, frilled, overlapping, sometimes with a short extra growth at the overlap. Spelled ‘Papillon Blanche’ until 1966.

Synonyms:

'Papillon Blanche'

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Papillon BlancPapillon Blanc, 11b W-W, J.W.A. Lefeber, the Netherlands, 1960
Photo #51414 Heath Family Archives, USAPapillon BlancPapillon Blanc, 11b W-W, J.W.A. Lefeber, the Netherlands, 1960
Photo #51413 Heath Family Archives, USA