Polindra
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Classification:
2 W-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Percival D. Williams

b 1865 d 1935

St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Percival D. Williams

From 1914 RHS Daffodil Yearbook

Percival D. Williams
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1927
Awards:

*AM(g) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1950.*AM(g) 1950; 

FCC Haarlem Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1944.FCC Haarlem 1944; 

AM Haarlem Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1940.AM Haarlem 1940; 

FCC(e) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1938.FCC(e) 1938; 

AM(e) 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 as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1937.AM(e) 1937; 
Special Class:
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.

Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
24 times as seed, 5 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, creamy white, spreading, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments a little inflexed at base, recurved above; corona expanded, brilliant yellow to light greenish yellow, mouth straight, closely ribbed, deeply frilled.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos or historic images  

PolindraPolindra, 2 W-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927
Photo #47618 John Russell, New ZealandPolindraPolindra, 2 W-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927
Photo #37841 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USAPolindraPolindra, 2 W-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927
Photo #31276 RHS Yearbook, EnglandPolindraPolindra, 2 W-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927
Photo #27265 P. de Jager and Sons, the NetherlandsPolindraPolindra, 2 W-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927
Photo #25892 Blom Bulbs Catalog, the NetherlandsPolindraPolindra, 2 W-Y, Percival D. Williams, England, 1927
Photo #392 ADS Photo, USA