Causeway Sunset
Classification:
2 Y-R[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Hybridizer:
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2002
Seed Parent: 
Pipe Major 2 Y-O 
Frederick E. Board, England
Year Registered: 1965
Kindled x Craigywarren
Pipe Major
Pollen Parent: 
Popcorn 2 Y-R 
Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1992
Phillips seedling
Popcorn
Used as parent:
8 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 108 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, deep golden yellow, spreading, a little concave, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments a little narrower, somewhat inflexed; corona bowl-shaped, narrow, ribbed, deep orange-red, mouth wavy, with rim dentate.

Origin of Name

Part of Derrick Turbitt’s ‘Causeway’ series. The Giants Causeway is an array of an estimated 40,000 basalt columns located on the north coast of Northern Ireland. It is frequently referred to the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’.