Challenger
Classification:
3 W-YYR[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Ernest M. Crosfield

d 1925

Raised daffodils 1898-1915. Frodsham, Cheshire, England; Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales; Cossington, Somerset, England; Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales

Ernest M. Crosfield
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1890
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.

Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. more than 76 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt or slightly truncate, mucronate, poeticus white, spreading, plane, overlapping half; the inner segments less obviously mucronate, a little inflexed, with margins wavy; corona shallow, ribbed, soft canary yellow, with a broad band of brilliant fiery red at rim, mouth shallowly 6-lobed, with rim crenate.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos or historic images  

ChallengerChallenger, 3 W-YYR, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1890
Photo #25491 Barr Catalog, EnglandChallengerChallenger, 3 W-YYR, Ernest M. Crosfield, England, 1890
Photo #25397 Unknown Historic Source