Little Dancer
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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Very Early
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
1960
Hybridizer:

Alec Gray

b 1895 d 1986

St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, England; Truro, Cornwall; Camborne,

Alec Gray
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1977
Registrant:

Broadleigh Gardens

See Skelmersdale, also Stagg

Broadleigh Gardens
, England, UK
Special Classes:
ADS Intermediates

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

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

, The Daffodil Society Intermediates
Seed Parent: 
N. asturiensis Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. asturiensis
Pollen Parent: 
Little Beauty 1 W-Y 
J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1953
Little Beauty
Seedling Number:
138B
Chromosomes:
14
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Was Lena; Fl. 65 mm wide; perianth segments ovate, inflexed, a little twisted or with margins wavy or incurved, overlapping at base only; corona cylindrical or somewhat funnel-shaped, ribbed, with mouth a little flared, rim deeply notched. Resembles a taller and later-flowered ‘Tosca’ with the corona mouth more distinctly flared.

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Little DancerLittle Dancer, 1 W-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1977
Photo #50958 Kirby Fong, USALittle DancerLittle Dancer, 1 W-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1977
Photo #50957 Kirby Fong, USALittle DancerLittle Dancer, 1 W-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1977
Photo #50956 Kirby Fong, USALittle DancerLittle Dancer, 1 W-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1977
Photo #50955 Kirby Fong, USALittle DancerLittle Dancer, 1 W-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1977
Photo #50954 Kirby Fong, USALittle DancerLittle Dancer, 1 W-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1977
Photo #41211 Kirby Fong, USALittle DancerLittle Dancer, 1 W-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1977
Photo #41210 Kirby Fong, USA