La Argentina
Classification:
11b W-O/WY[ Split-Cupped Papillon ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

P. van Deursen

Established 1887. Sassenheim, Holland; Heemskerk

P. van Deursen
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1948
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments very broad, blunt or truncate, prominently mucronate, pure white, somewhat reflexed, overlapping half; the inner segments more nearly spreading, square-shouldered at base, creased; corona widely expanded, very deeply 6-lobed, the lobes alternate to the perianth segments, with a broad longitudinal band of orange tapering from base to rim, touched with white and flanked by yellow.

In 2014, the division was changed from Division 2 to Division 11b in the R.H.S. Supplement 7.

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La ArgentinaLa Argentina, 11b W-O/WY, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1948
Photo #59200 Susie Lendermon Garden club of Virginia, USALa ArgentinaLa Argentina, 11b W-O/WY, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1948
Photo #54148 Heemskerk Catalog, the NetherlandsLa ArgentinaLa Argentina, 11b W-O/WY, P. van Deursen, the Netherlands, 1948
Photo #47332 Guntis Grants, Latvia