Blynken
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Classification:
6 Y-Y[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
1985
Hybridizer:

Roberta C. Watrous

b 1904 d 2000

Washington DC, USA

Roberta C. Watrous
, Washington DC, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1999
Registrant:

Delia Bankhead

Hillsboro, Virginia, USA; Hendersonville, N.Carolina; Reston, Virginia

Delia Bankhead
, North Carolina, USA
Special Class:
ADS Miniatures

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Miniature-Sized Daffodils".

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

Seed Parent: 
(
Rockery Gem 1 W-W 
R.A. van der Schoot, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1930
Rockery Gem
x
N. cyclamineus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. cyclamineus
)
Pollen Parent: 
N. fernandesii Division 13 Species
Section: Jonquilla
N. fernandesii
Seedling Number:
811/1
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. star-shaped, 40 mm wide, facing up; perianth segments lanceolate, acute, light greenish yellow, reflexed, convex, smooth, only slightly overlapping; corona funnel-shaped, smooth, slightly more intense than vivid yellow, mouth straight, ribbed, even, with rim crenate. Slightly scented.

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BlynkenBlynken, 6 Y-Y, Roberta C. Watrous, United States, 1999
Photo #9017 Kirby Fong, USABlynkenBlynken, 6 Y-Y, Roberta C. Watrous, United States, 1999
Photo #9016 Kirby Fong, USABlynkenBlynken, 6 Y-Y, Roberta C. Watrous, United States, 1999
Photo #491 Delia Bankhead, USA