Masked Crusader
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Classification:
3 W-Y[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
2019
Hybridizer:

James L. Akers

Wrenthorpe, West Yorkshire, England

James L. Akers
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2021
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: 
Panna Cotta Group 2 Y-Y 
Anne Wright, England
Year of first flowering: 2012
Spring Charm x N. rupicola subsp. watieri
Panna Cotta Group
Pollen Parent: 
Little Kibler 9 W-GYR 
John Kibler, United States
Year of first flowering: 1991
Little Kibler
Seedling Number:
264
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 36mm wide; perianth segments 14mm long, roundish, very broad, blunt or truncate, slightly mucronate, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping one-third; the inner segments narrower, more nearly ovate, scarcely mucronate, with margins incurved; corona 4.5mm long, bowl-shaped, smooth, mouth expanded and wavy, with rim crenate. 

 

Origin of Name

Commemorates registrant’s day, post Covid lockdown, spent with Anne Wright who was wearing a mask whilst hybridising daffodils.

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Masked CrusaderMasked Crusader, 3 W-Y, James L. Akers, England, 2021
Photo #59342 American Daffodil Society, USAMasked CrusaderMasked Crusader, 3 W-Y, James L. Akers, England, 2021
Photo #59341 American Daffodil Society, USA