Brilliant Star
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Classification:
11b W-O/WY[ Split-Cupped Papillon ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J.W.A. Lefeber

Established 1910. Lisse, Holland; Noordwijkerhout

J.W.A. Lefeber
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, 1960
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Pollen Parent: 
de Mol seedling ( unknown x
Buttonhole 11a W-Y 
Dr. W.E. de Mol, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1923
Victoria sport
Buttonhole
? )
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 87 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, squarish at apex, very prominently mucronate, yellow-white, with margins wavy, corona split to base, the six segments one-third the length of the perianth segments, under half their width and alternate to them, bi-lobed, with deep reddish orange some extra growths at center, alternate to the corona segments, short, strongly inflexed.

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Brilliant starBrilliant Star, 11b W-O/WY, J.W.A. Lefeber, the Netherlands, 1960
Photo #1301 Kirby Fong, USA