Fairy Wings
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Classification:
6 W-Y[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

G.S. Crouch

Wrotham, Kent, England

G.S. Crouch
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1938
Awards:

AM(a) 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 for the alpine house.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1938.AM(a) 1938; 
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.

Seed Parent: 
N. cyclamineus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. cyclamineus
?
Pollen Parent: 
N. poeticus Division 13 Species
Section: Narcissus
N. poeticus
Chromosomes:
14
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 50 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt or truncate, creamy white, stained yellow at base, reflexed, overlapping two-thirds; the inner segments twisted or with margins wavy; corona cylindrical, short, ribbed, brilliant yellow, mouth straight, even, with rim crenate.

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Fairy WingsFairy Wings, 6 W-Y, G.S. Crouch, England, 1938
Photo #31284 RHS Yearbook, England