Riotous
Previous Page
Classification:
4 Y-Y[ Double ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Oregon Bulb Farms

Oregon Bulb Farms
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, before 1946
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: 
Spring Glory 1 W-Y 
J. de Groot and Sons, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1914
Horsfieldii x Maximus
Spring Glory
sport
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Riotous
Descendants:
None
Comments

According to Jan deGraaff’s Record book of the 1951 descriptions of flowers then being grown at Oregon Bulb Farm: “5 inch diameter; actually a semi-double; the darker yellow center is mixed with a few petals of the sulfur yellow perianth; short neck.”

Click on the thumbnail to see the full size photos  

RiotousRiotous, 4 Y-Y, Oregon Bulb Farms, United States, 1946
Photo #56882 Janet Hickman, USA