Kings Pipe
Classification:
2 Y-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Variation:
Daffodil color or division may vary as the bloom reaches full maturity.
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1994
Seed Parent: 
Daydream 2 Y-W 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1960
Binkie x K43 (King of the North x Content)
Daydream
Pollen Parent: 
open pollinated
Seedling Number:
S13
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 85 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, pale yellow, smooth; corona smooth, opening buff pink, becoming deeper in tone, frilled. Develops more pink as flower matures; catalog says Daydream x 2W-P seedling.

Origin of Name

Cornwall had been well known for smuggling and there still is an old incinerator where traditionally the tobacco taken from captured smugglers was burned. This incinerator was called “The King’s pipe” hence the name for this yellow-pink daffodil first grown in Cornwall.