Pearlshell
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Classification:
11a W-P[ Split-Cupped Collar ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Gerritsen and Son

J. Gerritsen and Son
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, 1969
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: 
Cassata 11a W-W 
J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1963
Cassata
Pollen Parent: 
Poesy 2 W-P 
J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1978
Poesy
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
7 times as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, somewhat reflexed, overlapping; the inner segments narrower; corona split to base, the six segments about half as long as the perianth segments, opposite to them and joined at margins at base, opening yellow, becoming yellowish pink, aging to white, spreading or reflexed, frilled.

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PearlshellPearlshell, 11a W-P, J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands, 1969
Photo #51419 Heath Family Archives, USAPearlshellPearlshell, 11a W-P, J. Gerritsen and Son, the Netherlands, 1969
Photo #3170 Jack Gerritsen, the Netherlands