Perdita
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Classification:
9 W-GYR[ Poeticus ]
Season:
Very Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

David W. Gourlay

Tockington, Gloucestershire, England; Sutton-cum-Lound, Nottinghamshire

David W. Gourlay
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1963
Registrant:

Helen K. (Nell) Richardson

Helen K. (Nell) Richardson
, Ireland
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:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed, 6 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 74 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt or truncate, prominently mucronate, a little reflexed, concave, overlapping half; the inner segments more nearly spreading, with margins more strongly incurved; corona very shallow bowl-shaped, ribbed, pale yellow, with green at base and red at rim, mouth wavy, obscurely 3-lobed, with the lobes sometimes overlapping, rim minutely dentate.

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PerditaPerdita, 9 W-GYR, David W. Gourlay, England, 1963
Photo #4864 Wells Knierim, USA