Gossamer
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Classification:
3 W-YYP[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 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, 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: 
Rubra 2 W-YYO 
H. A. (Harry) Brown, Australia
Year Registered: 1933
Rubra
Pollen Parent: 
Foggy Dew 3 W-GWW 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1941
Silver Plane x Silver Coin seedling~
Foggy Dew
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
8 times as seed, 3 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide; perianth segments slightly reflexed; corona cup-shaped, pale yellow, with a narrow band of pink at rim.

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GossamerGossamer, 3 W-YYP, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1962
Photo #45329 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaGossamerGossamer, 3 W-YYP, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1962
Photo #9967 Ralph Sowell, USAGossamerGossamer, 3 W-YYP, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1962
Photo #4407 Ruth Johnson, USA