Foundling
Classification:
6 W-P[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Carncairn Daffodils

See Reade

Carncairn Daffodils
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1969
Seed Parent: 
Irish Rose 2 W-P 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1953
Interim x Evening
Irish Rose
Pollen Parent: 
Jenny 6 W-W 
Cyril F. Coleman, England
Year Registered: 1943
Mitylene x N. cyclamineus
Jenny
Chromosomes:
27
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
18 times as seed, 37 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 72 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, greenish white, reflexed, regular, overlapping; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, square-shouldered at base, sometimes a little twisted, with margins wavy and sometimes incurved; corona short cylinder-shaped, closely ribbed, pink, shading to a darker tone at rim, mouth straight, even or a little wavy, rim irregularly notched.

Received the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS) Award of Garden Merit(AGM) in 1995 and the award was rescinded by the RHS in 2012.

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FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #61497 Kirby Fong, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #61496 Kirby Fong, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #61495 Kirby Fong, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #59995 Kirby Fong, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #59994 Kirby Fong, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #59993 Kirby Fong, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #59992 Kirby Fong, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #50427 Henry Shejbal, Italy
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #49191 Noeline McLaren, New Zealand
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #46751 John E. Colley, England
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #45790 Brenda Lyon, Australia
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #37886 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #32984 Rose Bradley, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #23412 Ian Scroggy, Northern Ireland
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #7937 Ben Blake, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #7936 Ben Blake, USA
FoundlingFoundling, 6 W-P, Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland, 1969
Photo #5960 George Tarry, England