Acropolis
Classification:
4 W-O[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, 1955
Seed Parent: 
Falaise 4 W-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1945
Mary Copeland x N. poeticus ?
Falaise
Pollen Parent: 
Limerick 3 W-R 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Folly x Hades
Limerick
Seedling Number:
192
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
5 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. rounded, 112 mm diameter; perianth and other petaloid segments in several whorls, very broad, creamy white, with darker tones at base, overlapping half or more; the outer whorl truncate, slightly mucronate, spreading, concave, with margins a little incurled; the inner whorls successively shorter and narrower, more deeply concave, with margins more deeply incurling; the center whorl sharply inflexed; corona segments very short, interspersed among the petaloid segments at center, orange with brilliant greenish yellow at base, frilled.

Origin of Name

Part of Richardson’s “Race Horse Series.”