Red Devon
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Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

E.B. Champernowne

Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England

E.B. Champernowne
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1943
Awards:

*AM(p) 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 cultivation in pots, Pans or bowls

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

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1985.*AM(p) 1985; 

*FCC(g) Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence 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 1977.*FCC(g) 1977; 

*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 1968.*AM(g) 1968; 

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 1950.AM Haarlem 1950; 
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: 
Fortune 2 Y-O 
Walter T. Ware, England
Year Registered: 1917
Sir Watkin x Blackwell
Fortune
Pollen Parent: 
Killigrew 2 Y-O 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1907
Killigrew
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Red Devon
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 103 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, brilliant greenish yellow, with very slight white mucro, spreading, concave, regular, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, notched at shoulder, with margins wavy; corona very short funnel-shaped, lightly ribbed, strong orange, mouth straight, with shallow overlapping lobes, wavy. Slightly scented.

Received the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS) Award of Garden Merit(AGM) in 1993 and the award was rescinded by the RHS in 2012.

Origin of Name

Named for the historic “red” cattle of Devonshire.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos  

Red DevonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #53950 Kevin Inkawhich, USARed DevonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #48640 Kirby Fong, USARed DevonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #48639 Kirby Fong, USARed DevonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #35917 Fentongollan Farms, EnglandRed DevonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #32608 Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs, USARed devonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #21481 Ralph Sowell, USARed devonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #15825 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsRed devonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #15824 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsRed devonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #11382 Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs, USARed devonRed Devon, 2 Y-O, E.B. Champernowne, England, 1943
Photo #6150 Julius Wadekamper, USA