Moonbird
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Classification:
11a Y-Y[ Split-Cupped Collar ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Gerritsen and Son

J. Gerritsen and Son
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, 1969
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: 
seedling
Pollen Parent: 
Silvretta 1 Y-Y 
J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands
Year of first flowering: 1949
Silvretta
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments lemon yellow; corona deeply split, the six segments lemon yellow, with gold at rim, deeply frilled.

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MoonbirdMoonbird, 11a Y-Y, J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands, 1969
Photo #51409 Heath Family Archives, USAMoonbirdMoonbird, 11a Y-Y, J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands, 1969
Photo #44455 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaMoonbirdMoonbird, 11a Y-Y, J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands, 1969
Photo #33113 Rose Bradley, USAMoonbirdMoonbird, 11a Y-Y, J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands, 1969
Photo #3163 Jack Gerritsen, the Netherlands