Flashpoint
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Classification:
1 W-P[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Larry Wier

Buchanan, Michigan, USA

Larry Wier
, Michigan, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2003
Seed Parent: 
Magician 2 W-R 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1979
(Accent x Rose Caprice) x Cool Flame
Magician
Pollen Parent: 
Melancholy 1 W-P 
William Jackson, Jr., Australia
Year of first flowering: 1972
Egina x C.E. Radcliff
Melancholy
Seedling Number:
87-2
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Seed fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 99 mm wide; perianth segments ovate or roundish, blunt, spreading, with margins incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping; the inner segments narrower; corona funnel-shaped, ribbed, pink, with a less intense tone on the outside, mouth flared, lobed, wavy, with rim notched and dentate.

Origin of Name

Named because this was the “flashpoint” that Larry Wier needed to start registering his daffodils.

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FlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #47291 Tom Stettner, USAFlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #41071 Kirby Fong, USAFlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #40536 Becky Fox Matthews, USAFlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #40535 Becky Fox Matthews, USAFlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #40534 Becky Fox Matthews, USAFlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #34726 Kirby Fong, USAFlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #31834 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAFlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #8659 Becky Fox Matthews, USAFlashpointFlashpoint, 1 W-P, Larry Wier, United States, 2003
Photo #8658 Becky Fox Matthews, USA