Ortona
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Classification:
3 W-GOO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
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
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: 
Mitylene 2 W-Y 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1923
(Beacon x unknown)
Mitylene
Pollen Parent: 
Coronach 3 W-R 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Coronach
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments very broad in outline, blunt or rounded at apex, prominently mucronate, pure white, spreading, plane, of good substance, overlapping half; the inner segments less noticeably mucronate, a little inflexed; corona broad, very shallow, heavily ribbed, intense reddish orange, with green at base.

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