Minnowlet
Classification:
11a Y-Y[ Split-Cupped Collar ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
1987
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 2010
Registrant:
Seed Parent: 
Minnow 8 W-Y 
Alec Gray, England
Year Registered: 1962
Minnow
Pollen Parent: 
Baccarat 11a Y-Y 
J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands
Year of first flowering: 1950
Baccarat
Seedling Number:
17-2-312
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 68mm wide; perianth segments 24mm long, broadly ovate, blunt, yellow, with pale mucro, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base, a little inflexed, concave, with margins incurled; corona split to base, the six segments 9mm long, each closely overlying a perianth segment and of two-thirds the width, a darker tone than the perianth segments, bi-lobed, with lobes overlapping, smooth, wavy. First flowered in 1987.

Origin of Name

Believed to be named after its parent ‘Minnow’.