Irish Minstrel
Classification:
2 W-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1958
Awards:
Special Class:
Seed Parent: 
Green Island 2 W-GWY 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Gracious x Seraglio
Green Island
Pollen Parent: 
Tudor Minstrel 2 W-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1948
(Mitylene x Penquite) x Cardigan
Tudor Minstrel
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
8 times as seed, 10 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide, of great substance; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, creamy white, spreading, plane, or slightly concave at apex, with margins minutely incurling, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, somewhat rounded at apex, shouldered at base, a little inflexed; corona bowl-shaped, smooth, vivid yellow, loosely frilled.

Origin of Name

Part of the Richardsons’ “Irish Series.”