Artie Lemons
Classification:
10 W-Y[ Bulbocodium Hybrids ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
2008
Hybridizer:

Clay Higgins

Clay Higgins
, New Jersey, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2013
Seed Parent: 
Spoirot 10 W-W 
Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia
Year Registered: 1998
N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. conspicuus x N. cantabricus subsp. cantabricus var. foliosus
Spoirot
Pollen Parent: 
N. romieuxii subsp. romieuxii var. mesatlanticus Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. romieuxii subsp. romieuxii var. mesatlanticus
Seedling Number:
13-11
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 42mm wide; perianth segments 8mm long, lanceolate in outline, acute at apex, creamy white, spreading to a little reflexed, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, separated; corona 30mm long, bowl-shaped, lightly ribbed, light lemon yellow, mouth straight and wavy, with rim crenate and regularly notched. It appears ‘Mr Higgins’ is a sister seedling with ‘Artie Lemons’. 

Origin of Name

Named after Mr. Higgins’ mother Artie Lemons Higgins with her maiden name. According to the hybridizer, “We always said that Mom was the class in our family and the one that taught us to be ladies and gentlemen.”