Koshare
Classification:
8 W-Y[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1996
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 2014
Seed Parent: 
Festivity 2 W-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1954
Bodilly ? x Brunswick ?
Festivity
Pollen Parent: 
Matador 8 Y-GOO 
Oregon Bulb Farms, United States
Year Registered: 1958
Admiration ? x open pollinated
Matador
Seedling Number:
91-20-1
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 1-3 per stem, 70mm wide; perianth segments 30mm long, broadly ovate, blunt, truncate, slightly mucronate, white, spreading, plane or with margins a little wavy, midrib showing, of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower; corona 11mm long, funnel-shaped, irregularly ribbed, lemon yellow, mouth straight, lightly frilled. Resembles ‘Festivity.’

Origin of Name

Named after a white-painted clown in celebrations of several Southwestern USA Indian Tribes.