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Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, before 1951
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Seed Parent: 
Narvik 2 Y-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1940
Carbineer x Porthilly
Narvik
Pollen Parent: 
Ceylon 2 Y-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1943
Marksman x Diolite
Ceylon
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, deep greenish golden yellow, spreading or reflexed, plane or a little convex, somewhat creased, with margins sometimes nicked, overlapping one- third to a half; the inner segments only a little narrower, spreading or inflexed, with margins lightly recurved at base; corona deep cup-shaped, loosely ribbed, reddish orange, with a darker tone at mouth, the mouth straight, 6-lobed, frilled, with rim crenate.

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Masked lightMasked Light, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1951
Photo #4421 Ruth Johnson, USA