Otranto
Classification:
3 W-OOR[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (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 1944
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: 
Seraglio 3 Y-YYO 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1926
Mozart x Gallipoli
Seraglio
Pollen Parent: 
Red Sun 3 W-O 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Red Sun
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. rounded, more than 102 mm wide; perianth segments very broad in outline, rounded or truncate at apex, more or less prominently mucronate, pure white, slightly reflexed, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, more nearly spreading, with margins wavy; corona shallow, split to base, the six segments in two deeply overlapping whorls of three, alternate to the perianth segments, loosely ribbed, gold, shading to deep red at rim, frilled.

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