Ken's Favorite
Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1968
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1978
Seed Parent: 
Cordial 2 W-P 
Murray Evans, United States
Year Registered: 1970
Pink Lace x Interim
Cordial
Pollen Parent: 
Caro Nome 2 W-WPP 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1954
Green Island x Glenshane
Caro Nome
Seedling Number:
L-30/1
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
20 times as seed, 8 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 110 mm wide; perianth segments very broad in outline, rounded or squarish at apex, sometimes truncate, mucronate, spreading, slightly concave, overlapping half; the inner segments inflexed, more narrowly ovate, sometimes twisted or with margins incurved; corona cup-shaped, smooth, deep rose pink, touched white between crenations at rim, mouth slightly expanded, occasionally split and overlapping, rim irregularly crenate.

Origin of Name

This daffodil was named for Ken Dorwin, during a visit at Murray Evans’ gardens. Ken’s full name is Charles Kenneth Dorwin, however, he went by the name Ken Dorwin.