Corncrake
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Classification:
3 W-R[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Guy L. Wilson

b 1885 d 1962

Broughshane, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland

Guy L. Wilson
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1947
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1955.AM(e) 1955; 
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.

Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 92 mm wide; perianth segments broad, smooth, overlapping; corona very shallow bowl-shaped, ribbed, orange-red, frilled.

Origin of Name

Named after the bird that migrates to Scotland in late spring from sub-Saharan Africa.

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CorncrakeCorncrake, 3 W-R, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1947
Photo #28526 Guy L. Wilson Catalog, Northern IrelandCorncrakeCorncrake, 3 W-R, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1947
Photo #28525 Guy L. Wilson Catalog, Northern Ireland