Picarillo
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Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
1930
Hybridizer:

Brian O. Mulligan

Brian O. Mulligan
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1951
Awards:

AM(a)(r) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

Qualified for the alpine house

Qualified for the rock garden.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1982.AM(a)(r) 1982; 
Special Classes:
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.

, ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Seed Parent: 
N. rupicola subsp. watieri Division 13 Species
Section: Apodanthi
N. rupicola subsp. watieri
Pollen Parent: 
N. minor var. pumilus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. minor var. pumilus
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 30-35 mm wide, brilliant greenish yellow; perianth segments ovate or narrowly ovate, acute; corona funnel-shaped, mouth expanded, wavy.

According to a letter from Brian Mulligan, dated 1982, he writes, “Yes, I was the raiser of ‘Picarillo’, at the time when I was Assistant to the Director of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden, Wisley, Surrey, England, in the 1930s. 

Origin of Name

It was named by Alec Gray, the daffodil grower in Cornwall, England, and the name published in his book, Miniature Daffodils, in 1955.  N. watieri was the seed parent.”

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PicarilloPicarillo, 2 Y-Y, Brian O. Mulligan, England, 1951
Photo #2460 Kirby Fong, USA