Little Dryad
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Classification:
6 W-W[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
2009
Hybridizer:

Anne Wright

Tockwith, North Yorkshire, England

Anne Wright
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2017
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: 
Candlepower 1 W-W 
Alec Gray, England
Year Registered: 1975
Candlepower
Pollen Parent: 
Keira KB/M/1/98
Seedling Number:
2953-2
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Little Dryad
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 35mm wide, greenish white 157D; perianth segments 14mm long, oblong in outline, rounded at apex, prominently mucronate, reflexed, plane or with margins slightly incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping at base only; the inner segments narrower, scarcely mucronate; corona 17mm long, cylindrical, smooth, mouth flared and even, with rim deeply notched.

Origin of Name

Named for the hybridizer’s nursery located in Tockwith, North Yorkshire.

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Little DryadLittle Dryad, 6 W-W, Anne Wright, England, 2017
Photo #58348 Kirby Fong, USALittle DryadLittle Dryad, 6 W-W, Anne Wright, England, 2017
Photo #58347 Kirby Fong, USALittle DryadLittle Dryad, 6 W-W, Anne Wright, England, 2017
Photo #58346 Kirby Fong, USALittle DryadLittle Dryad, 6 W-W, Anne Wright, England, 2017
Photo #34211 Dryad Nursery, EnglandLittle DryadLittle Dryad, 6 W-W, Anne Wright, England, 2017
Photo #34210 Dryad Nursery, England