Floris Selina
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Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

John A. Hunter

Nelson, New Zealand

John A. Hunter
, South Island, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 1963
Awards:

PC(e)(NZ) Award

This plant earned the Certificate of Preliminary Commendation (PC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to a new plant of promise for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the New Zealand National Daffodil Society in 1962.PC(e)(NZ) 1962; 
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: 
Cletus 1 W-W 
John T. Gray, New Zealand
Year Registered: 1949
Beersheba
Cletus
Pollen Parent: 
Carnlough 2 W-WWP 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1934
Carnlough
Pedigree Chart:
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Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 124 mm wide. Resembles ‘Cletus’ but with a shorter and smoother corona.

Origin of Name

This daffodil was named ‘Floris Selina’ in memory of the hybridizer’s mother. She passed away shortly after John and Marie Hunter were married. Therefore, John named his new cultivar of the time in memory of his mother.

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