Kholmes
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Classification:
10 W-W[ Bulbocodium Hybrids ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
1988
Hybridizer:

Glenbrook Bulb Farm

Glenbrook Bulb Farm
, Tasmania, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 1998
Special Classes:
ADS Miniatures

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

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

, The Daffodil Society Miniatures
Seed Parent: 
N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. conspicuus Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. conspicuus
Pollen Parent: 
N. cantabricus subsp. cantabricus var. foliosus Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. cantabricus subsp. cantabricus var. foliosus
Seedling Number:
3/88
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Kholmes
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 44 mm wide, creamy-lemon flowers on a tube of deeper lemon; gives a reverse bi-color appearance; perianth segments narrow, acute, twisted, corona deep bowl-shaped, very lightly frilled.

Origin of Name

Part of Rod Barwick’s “Little Detective Series” (SherlocK HOLMES).

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KholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #8579 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #8578 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #8577 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #8576 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #8575 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #7572 Geoff Roderick, AustraliaKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #7031 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #7030 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #7029 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #7028 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #7027 Jon Kawaguchi, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #5756 Tom Stettner, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #5755 Tom Stettner, USAKholmesKholmes, 10 W-W, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 1998
Photo #5754 Tom Stettner, USA