Arctic Gold
Classification:
1 Y-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, before 1951
Awards:
Seed Parent: 
Goldcourt 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Crocus x Cromarty
Goldcourt
Pollen Parent: 
Kingscourt 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Royalist x Crocus
Kingscourt
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
60 times as seed, 39 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 95 mm diameter, vivid yellow; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, only very slightly mucronate, spreading, plane, with margins sometimes slightly incurling, smooth and of waxy texture, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, inflexed at base, recurved towards apex, with margins wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, a little darker in tone than the perianth, with mouth expanded and heavily ribbed, rim flanged, notched and crenate.