Backhousei
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Classification:
2 W-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

William Backhouse

b 1807 d 1869

Wolsingham, Durham, England

William Backhouse
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1869
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Seed Parent: 
N. x incomparabilis Division 13 Species
Section: Intersectional Hybrid
N. hispanicus and N. poeticus OR N. poeticus and N. pseudonarcissus
N. x incomparabilis
Pollen Parent: 
N. pseudonarcissus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. pseudonarcissus
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Sulfury-white perianth; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, sulfur white, somewhat inflexed, overlapping one-third; the inner segments twisted; corona only a little shorter than the perianth segments, cylindrical, lemon yellow, with mouth straight and loosely frilled, rim deeply crenate.

This has also been used as a Group name. RHS has it as a hybrid between a variant of N. bicolor and N. poeticus.

In the 1916 RHS Classification List, this cultivar was designated to be either lost to cultivation or surpassed by modern varieties.

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BackhouseiBackhousei, 2 W-Y, William Backhouse, England, 1869
Photo #62395 Richard Talmadge Ambrose, USA