Little Sentry
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Classification:
7 Y-Y[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Alec Gray

b 1895 d 1986

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

Alec Gray
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1984
Registrant:

Broadleigh Gardens

See Skelmersdale, also Stagg

Broadleigh Gardens
, England, UK
Special Classes:
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

, The Daffodil Society Miniatures
Seed Parent: 
N. rupicola Division 13 Species
Section: Apodanthi
N. rupicola
Pollen Parent: 
N. poeticus Division 13 Species
Section: Narcissus
N. poeticus
Seedling Number:
V13/34
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Little Sentry
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. Rounded, 32 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, truncate, mucronate, opening vivid yellow soon becoming light greenish yellow spreading or slightly reflexed, a little concave; inner segments narrower, more nearly spreading and plane; corona disc-shaped, ribbed, vivid yellow, minutely touched with a darker tone at rim, with mouth wavy. Closely resembles a ‘Sun Disc’ flowering about ten days earlier.

Origin of Name

Was called Sentry.

Synonyms:

'Sentry'

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Little SentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #59725 Sue Taylor, EnglandLittle SentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #56226 Hein Meeuwissen, the NetherlandsLittle SentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #42670 Tom Stettner, USALittle SentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #42669 Tom Stettner, USALittle SentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #40412 John Castor, USALittle SentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #33218 Janelle Noble, AustraliaLittle SentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #32257 Tom Stettner, USALittle sentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #26646 Kirby Fong, USALittle sentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #16826 Jon Kawaguchi, USALittle sentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #16825 Jon Kawaguchi, USALittle sentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #16824 Jon Kawaguchi, USALittle sentryLittle Sentry, 7 Y-Y, Alec Gray, England, 1984
Photo #4797 Wells Knierim, USA