Estrellita
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Classification:
6 Y-Y[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Very Early
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, before 1954
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: 
Mite 6 Y-Y 
Sir Josslyn A.R. Gore-Booth, Ireland
Year of first flowering: 1935
N. obvallaris ? x N. cyclamineus
Mite
Pollen Parent: 
Malvern Gold 2 Y-Y 
H. A. (Harry) Brown, Australia
Year Registered: 1933
King Alfred ?
Malvern Gold
Pedigree Chart:
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Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 70 mm wide; perianth segments broad, slightly reflexed, overlapping.

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EstrellitaEstrellita, 6 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1954
Photo #59742 Rose Bradley, USAEstrellitaEstrellita, 6 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1954
Photo #50796 Kirby Fong, USAEstrellitaEstrellita, 6 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1954
Photo #33450 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USAEstrellitaEstrellita, 6 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1954
Photo #11399 Willis H. Wheeler, USA