Nairobi
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Classification:
2 W-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
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 1945
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1948.AM(e) 1948; 
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: 
Aviemore 2 Y-YOO 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1927
Beacon x Fortune
Aviemore
Pollen Parent: 
Hades 2 W-R 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Hades
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Nairobi
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Nairobi
Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt or squarish at apex, slightly mucronate, spreading, plane or with margins very slightly wavy and sometimes incurling, smooth and of thick substance, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, a little inflexed; corona bowl- shaped, loosely ribbed, vivid orange, mouth expanded and in places split and overlapping, frilled.

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