Gull Island
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Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
2016
Hybridizer:

Daniel Bellinger

Wadsworth, Ohio, USA

Daniel Bellinger
, Ohio, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2022
Special Class:
ADS Intermediates

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Intermediate-Sized Daffodils".

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

Seed Parent: 
Estuary 2 W-GWW 
Murray Evans, United States
Year Registered: 1987
Broomhill x Stainless
Estuary
Pollen Parent: 
Upper Broughton 2 W-P 
Mrs. J. (Barbara) Abel Smith, England
Year Registered: 1980
Stainless x Jewel Song
Upper Broughton
Seedling Number:
09.04.29
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Gull Island
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 69mm wide; perianth segments 25mm long, broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, greenish white 155A, spreading, concave, with margins incurved from midrib, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base, scarcely mucronate; corona 16mm long, cup-shaped, broadly ribbed, opening with faint pink blush, maturing to greenish white 155A, mouth straight and wavy, with rim entire. Mid-season. Slightly sweetly scented

Origin of Name

Rocky Island in Lake Superior; wildlife refuge.

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Gull IslandGull Island, 2 W-W, Daniel Bellinger, United States, 2022
Photo #61951 Clay Higgins, USAGull IslandGull Island, 2 W-W, Daniel Bellinger, United States, 2022
Photo #60581 Daniel Bellinger, USA