Pollux
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Classification:
5 W-W[ Triandrus ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Douglas and John W. Blanchard

Douglas Blanchard In partnership with John W. Blanchard from 1954 tuntil 1968.
Blandford, Dorset, England.

Douglas and John W. Blanchard
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1968
Registrant:

M.J. Jefferson-Brown

M.J. Jefferson-Brown
Awards:

PC(e) Award

This plant earned the Certificate of Preliminary Commendation (PC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to a new plant of promise for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1968.PC(e) 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: 
Silver Coin 3 W-W 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1935
x N. poeticus var. hellenicus
Silver Coin
Pollen Parent: 
N. triandrus subsp. pallidulus Division 13 Species
Section: Ganymedes
N. triandrus subsp. pallidulus
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 64 mm wide, greenish white; perianth segments slightly reflexed, irregular, overlapping; corona ribbed, with mouth straight, rim crenate.

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PolluxPollux, 5 W-W, Douglas and John W. Blanchard, England, 1968
Photo #53821 Michael Jefferson-Brown, England