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Classification:
3 W-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
2015
Hybridizer:

Robert Spotts

Oakley, California, USA; Stockton, California

Robert Spotts
, California, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2021
Special Class:
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.

Seed Parent: 
Merlin 3 W-YYR 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1956
Mahmoud x Mahmoud
Merlin
Pollen Parent: 
(
Actaea 9 W-YYR 
G. Lubbe and Son, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1919
Actaea
x
N. viridiflorus Division 13 Species
Section: Jonquilla
N. viridiflorus
)
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 64mm wide; perianth segments 30mm long, broadly ovate to roundish, blunt, spreading, plane or with margins somewhat incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping
half; the inner segments narrower, more nearly ovate; corona 6mm long, cup-shaped, ribbed, mouth a little expanded, frilled and lobed, with lobes overlapping, with rim notched. Early. Slightly sweetly scented.

Origin of Name

Loyce McKenzie’s preference for Division 3 intermediates.

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Loyce's ChoiceLoyce's Choice, 3 W-YYO, Robert Spotts, United States, 2021
Photo #58805 Robert Spotts, USA