King's Ransom
Classification:
1 Y-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, before 1950
Seed Parent: 
Kingscourt 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Royalist x Crocus
Kingscourt
Pollen Parent: 
Goldcourt 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Crocus x Cromarty
Goldcourt
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed, 17 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, spreading, smooth, concave, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, square- shouldered at base, with margins wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, mouth ribbed and widely expanded, rim regularly and very deeply notched and crenate, the crenations each folded back at the margins and appearing to be dentate.