Little Beacon
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Classification:
2 W-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Very Early
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
2010
Hybridizer:

Brian S. Duncan

Rathowen Daffodils, in partnership with Clarke Campbell (1973-1988), Dergmoney, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland;

Founded Brian Duncan Daffodils 1989 - 2001

Brian S. Duncan

Photo from Spain in 2011

Brian S. Duncan
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2020
Special Class:
ADS Miniatures

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Miniature-Sized Daffodils".

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

Seed Parent: 
Little Beauty 1 W-Y 
J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1953
Little Beauty
Pollen Parent: 
N. poeticus Division 13 Species
Section: Narcissus
N. poeticus
Seedling Number:
3932
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. star-shaped, 48mm wide; perianth segments 19mm long, ovate, blunt, mucronate, white, spreading, plane or with margins a little wavy, with midrib showing, of membranaceous substance, overlapping a quarter; the inner segments acute at apex, scarcely mucronate; corona 11mm long, narrow funnel-shaped, broadly ribbed, deep lemon yellow, mouth straight and wavy to lightly frilled, with rim notched. 

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