Placid
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Classification:
3 W-Y[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1958
Hybridizer:

William Jackson, Jr.

b 1936 d 1975

William Jackson, Jr.
, Tasmania, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 1968
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: 
Beirut 2 W-YYR 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1944
Seraglio x Porthilly
Beirut
Pollen Parent: 
Jeb 3 W-YYR 
William Jackson, Jr., Australia
Year Registered: 1966
Token x Ethni
Jeb
Seedling Number:
103/58
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
5 times as seed, 12 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, only very slightly mucronate, pure white, a little inflexed, slightly concave, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, square-shouldered at base, more strongly inflexed, with margins wavy; corona narrow bowl-shaped, ribbed, soft lemon yellow, with mouth straight, tightly frilled.

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PlacidPlacid, 3 W-Y, William Jackson, Jr., Australia, 1968
Photo #57751 Becky Fox Matthews, USAPlacidPlacid, 3 W-Y, William Jackson, Jr., Australia, 1968
Photo #49258 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandPlacidPlacid, 3 W-Y, William Jackson, Jr., Australia, 1968
Photo #11135 Kirby Fong, USAPlacidPlacid, 3 W-Y, William Jackson, Jr., Australia, 1968
Photo #6806 J.N. Hancock and Co., AustraliaPlacidPlacid, 3 W-Y, William Jackson, Jr., Australia, 1968
Photo #2497 Kirby Fong, USA