William Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1869
N. bicolor x N. pseudonarcissus
Emperor
Section: Ganymedes
N. triandrus subsp. triandrus var. triandrus
Fl. facing down; perianth segments ovate, blunt, mucronate, creamy white, with yellow along midrib beneath, inflexed, often twisted or with margins wavy or recurved, separated; corona somewhat funnel-shaped, long, straight-sided, primrose yellow, mouth straight or a little expanded, with rim crenate.
Description in Cart.& Goodwin 1914 catalog: “perianth creamy yellow, primrose trumpet”
Description in 1956 Morrison catalog: “perianth cream, trumpet palest sulfur”
Description in 1993 Hancock catalog: “pale primrose-yellow petals and sulfur-yellow straight trumpet”
According to Elizabeth Lawrence who wrote ‘Lob’s Wood’ in 1971, this daffodil was named for a man of “kindly heart and good memory, who did not forget his friends when his bulbs were dug”.
'Bennett-Poë'
J.T. Bennett-Poë, 5 W-Y, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1904
Photo #52440 J.N. Hancock and Co., AustraliaJ.T. Bennett-Poë, 5 W-Y, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1904
Photo #45410 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaJ.T. Bennett-Poë, 5 W-Y, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1904
Photo #45409 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaJ.T. Bennett-Poë, 5 W-Y, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1904
Photo #1973 Kirby Fong, USA