Red Sheen
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Classification:
3 O-R[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1982
Hybridizer:

Richard and Elise Havens

Richard Havens b 1940, d 2014

Elise Havens, daughter of Grant E. Mitsch

Richard and Elise Havens of Hubbard, Oregon, USA, continued her father's business "Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils" from 1989 though 2015.

Richard and Elise Havens
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1993
Special Class:
ADS Intermediates

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Intermediate-Sized Daffodils".

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

Seed Parent: 
Bantam 2 Y-YOO 
Barr and Sons, England
Year Registered: 1950
Bantam
Pollen Parent: 
Kindled 2 Y-R 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1950
Indian Summer x (Workman x Trevisky)
Kindled
Seedling Number:
REH7/1
Pedigree Chart:
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Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Red Sheen
Comments

Fl. 80 mm wide; perianth segments acute, yellow, flushed with orange, slightly reflexed, smooth; corona bowl-shaped, brilliant orange-red, a little frilled. Sunproof. Resembles its sibling ‘Scarlet Tanager’ but with the perianth less rounded.

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Red sheenRed Sheen, 3 O-R, Richard and Elise Havens, United States, 1993
Photo #21482 Ralph Sowell, USARed sheenRed Sheen, 3 O-R, Richard and Elise Havens, United States, 1993
Photo #2610 Kirby Fong, USARed sheenRed Sheen, 3 O-R, Richard and Elise Havens, United States, 1993
Photo #2609 Kirby Fong, USA