Canopus
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Classification:
1 W-W[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, 1958
Awards:

*AM(g) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1963.*AM(g) 1963; 
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.

Seed Parent: 
Spitzbergen 1 W-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1943
Cameronian x Slemish
Spitzbergen
Pollen Parent: 
Broughshane 1 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Trostan x Kanchenjunga
Broughshane
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Canopus
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Canopus
Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, pure white, spreading, plane, overlapping half; the inner segments a little inflexed, with margins wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, opening creamy white, becoming pure white, with rim very widely flanged and deeply notched.

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CanopusCanopus, 1 W-W, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1958
Photo #59092 Roger Parsons, EnglandCanopusCanopus, 1 W-W, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1958
Photo #6720 J.N. Hancock and Co., Australia