Olumbo
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Classification:
10 W-Y[ Bulbocodium Hybrids ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Glenbrook Bulb Farm

Glenbrook Bulb Farm
, Tasmania, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 2002
Special Class:
ADS Miniatures

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

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

Seed Parent: 
Nylon Group 10 W-W 
Douglas Blanchard, England
Year Registered: 1949
N. romieuxii x N. cantabricus subsp. cantabricus var. foliosus
Nylon Group
Pollen Parent: 
N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. conspicuus Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. conspicuus
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

40mm wide and opens a bright lemon yellow; cup is bright lemon yellow, perianth segments open a yellowish-green and matured to a greenish white. A sibling to ‘Mitimoto’.

Origin of Name

Part of Rod Barwick’s “Little Detective Series”, named after the TV series ‘Columbo’.

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OlumboOlumbo, 10 W-Y, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 2002
Photo #41399 Kirby Fong, USAOlumboOlumbo, 10 W-Y, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 2002
Photo #41398 Kirby Fong, USAOlumboOlumbo, 10 W-Y, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 2002
Photo #8595 Jon Kawaguchi, USAOlumboOlumbo, 10 W-Y, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 2002
Photo #8594 Jon Kawaguchi, USAOlumboOlumbo, 10 W-Y, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 2002
Photo #8593 Jon Kawaguchi, USAOlumboOlumbo, 10 W-Y, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 2002
Photo #8592 Jon Kawaguchi, USAOlumboOlumbo, 10 W-Y, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 2002
Photo #8591 Jon Kawaguchi, USAOlumboOlumbo, 10 W-Y, Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia, 2002
Photo #6552 Lyn Edwards, Australia