Lemon Drops
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Classification:
5 Y-Y[ Triandrus ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1956
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.

Seed Parent: 
Fortune 2 Y-O 
Walter T. Ware, England
Year Registered: 1917
Sir Watkin x Blackwell
Fortune
Pollen Parent: 
N. triandrus subsp. triandrus var. triandrus Division 13 Species
Section: Ganymedes
N. triandrus subsp. triandrus var. triandrus
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Lemon Drops
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Lemon Drops
Comments

Fls often 3 per stem, soft lemon, facing down; perianth segments ovate, pale yellow, slightly reflexed, plane, with broad midrib showing, overlapping at base only; corona cup-shaped, long, straight-sided, loosely ribbed, light greenish yellow, mouth straight, with rim obscurely notched and minutely crenate.

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Lemon DropsLemon Drops, 5 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1956
Photo #33067 Rose Bradley, USALemon dropsLemon Drops, 5 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1956
Photo #7286 Becky Fox Matthews, USALemon dropsLemon Drops, 5 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1956
Photo #7285 Becky Fox Matthews, USALemon dropsLemon Drops, 5 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1956
Photo #4785 Wells Knierim, USA