Fl. rounded, 98 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments very broad, blunt, yellowish white, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping; corona segments light yellow. Sweetly scented.

According to Australian Daffodil hybridizer Graeme Davis here is the information about ‘Manuka’s’ name: “One of the original suburbs of Canberra is called Manuka (we say it different). It was named by an American who did the original design of Canberra identifying it as a New Zealand plant (Canberra Avenue was originally meant to be Wellington Avenue which goes from Parliament House to Manuka.)