Jean Nicholl
Classification:
11a Y-O[ Split-Cupped Collar ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1996
Hybridizer:
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2007
Seed Parent: 
Congress 11a Y-O 
J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands
Year of first flowering: 1965
Congress
Pollen Parent: 
Achduart 3 Y-O 
John S.B. Lea, England
Year Registered: 1972
2-17-54 (Spry x de Navarro seedling) x Vulcan
Achduart
Seedling Number:
11/96
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 90 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, squarish, somewhat truncate, with slight whitish mucro, vivid yellow, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, deeply overlapping; the inner segments a very little narrower; corona deeply split, the six segments each half the length and width of the perianth segments and closely overlying them, forming an outer and an inner whorl of 3, orange, heavily ribbed, frilled. Sunproof.

Origin of Name

Named in memory of Reg Nicholl’s wife, Jean.