Laurens Koster
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Classification:
8 W-Y[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Albert Vis

Limmen, Holland

Albert Vis
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, before 1906
Awards:

AM Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1912.AM Haarlem 1912; 
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Seed Parent: 
Ornatus 9 W-YYR 
James Walker, England
Year Registered: 1870
Ornatus
Pollen Parent: 
N. tazetta Division 13 Species
Section: Tazettae
N. tazetta
Chromosomes:
17
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Usually sterile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 4-5 per stem; perianth segments very broad, rounded or truncate at apex, prominently mucronate, creamy white, spreading, with margins sometimes incurling, overlapping 1/3; inner segments not noticeably mucronate, spathulate, with margins wavy and sometimes recurved; corona shallow bowl-shaped, ribbed, bright orange-yellow, with mouth wavy.

Origin of Name

Named after Laurens Janszoon Coster (also spelled Koster), an important citizen of Haarlem in the Netherlands, and a Dutch rival of Johannes Gutenberg as the alleged inventor of printing.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos or historic images  

Laurens KosterLaurens Koster, 8 W-Y, Albert Vis, the Netherlands, 1906
Photo #55060 Rose Bradley, USALaurens KosterLaurens Koster, 8 W-Y, Albert Vis, the Netherlands, 1906
Photo #55059 Rose Bradley, USALaurens KosterLaurens Koster, 8 W-Y, Albert Vis, the Netherlands, 1906
Photo #47260 Drew Mc Farland, USALaurens KosterLaurens Koster, 8 W-Y, Albert Vis, the Netherlands, 1906
Photo #45998 Oregon Bulb Farms, USALaurens KosterLaurens Koster, 8 W-Y, Albert Vis, the Netherlands, 1906
Photo #41199 Kirby Fong, USALaurens KosterLaurens Koster, 8 W-Y, Albert Vis, the Netherlands, 1906
Photo #32830 Rose Bradley, USALaurens kosterLaurens Koster, 8 W-Y, Albert Vis, the Netherlands, 1906
Photo #10672 Colin Crotty, New ZealandLaurens kosterLaurens Koster, 8 W-Y, Albert Vis, the Netherlands, 1906
Photo #2090 Kirby Fong, USA