Green Woodpecker
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Classification:
2 W-GYO[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Very Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J.M. de Navarro

b 1896 d 1979

Broadway, Worcestershire, England

J.M. de Navarro
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1954
Awards:

PC(e) 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 Royal Horticultural Society in 1960.PC(e) 1960; 
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: 
Folly 2 W-O 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1926
Beacon x N. poeticus var. recurvus
Folly
Pollen Parent: 
Coronach 3 W-R 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Coronach
open pollinated
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Green Woodpecker
Fertility:
Believed to be Seed fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments broad, snow white, slightly reflexed, smooth; corona very shallow bowl-shaped, with a narrow mid-zone of orange-yellow, deep moss green at base and reddish orange at rim. Sunproof.

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Green woodpeckerGreen Woodpecker, 2 W-GYO, J.M. de Navarro, England, 1954
Photo #12546 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAGreen woodpeckerGreen Woodpecker, 2 W-GYO, J.M. de Navarro, England, 1954
Photo #12545 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAGreen woodpeckerGreen Woodpecker, 2 W-GYO, J.M. de Navarro, England, 1954
Photo #4739 Wells Knierim, USA