Olentangy
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Classification:
3 W-GYY[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1980
Hybridizer:

Mary Lou Gripshover

Columbus, Ohio, USA; Franklin, Tennessee; Milford, Ohio

Mary Lou Gripshover
, Ohio, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2015
Special Class:
ADS Intermediates

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Intermediate-Sized Daffodils".

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

Seed Parent: 
Grace Note 3 W-GGY 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year of first flowering: 1952
Cushendall ? x Cantabile
Grace Note
Pollen Parent: 
open pollinated
Seedling Number:
73-36-3
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 57mm dia; perianth segments roundish, broad, truncate, mucronate, a little reflexed, plane to slightly concave, with margins incurved, creased and of heavy substance, overlapping half or more; the inner segments narrower, more nearly spreading, scarcely mucronate; corona 10mm dia, disc-shaped, ribbed, mouth expanded and frilled, with rim crenate.

Origin of Name

Named for a river in central Ohio, USA.

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OlentangyOlentangy, 3 W-GYY, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 2015
Photo #33882 Tom Stettner, USAOlentangyOlentangy, 3 W-GYY, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 2015
Photo #32386 Tom Stettner, USAOlentangyOlentangy, 3 W-GYY, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 2015
Photo #31264 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAOlentangyOlentangy, 3 W-GYY, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 2015
Photo #31257 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA