Olympic Flame
Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2005
Seed Parent: 
Dateline 3 Y-O 
Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1986
Montego x Achduart
Dateline
Pollen Parent: 
Loch Hope 2 Y-R 
John S.B. Lea, England
Year Registered: 1970
1-32-57 (Tanera x Air Marshal) x Vulcan
Loch Hope
Seedling Number:
B-9-2
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 105 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, with slight white mucro, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower; corona funnel-shaped, ribbed, with mouth expanded and a little frilled, rim crenate.

Origin of Name

Frank Verge was one of a number of privileged runners who carried the Olympic Flame through the streets of Kent on its way to London for the 1948 Olympic Games, hence the name of this daffodil.