Roundita
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Classification:
1 Y-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Variation:
Daffodil color or division may vary as the bloom reaches full maturity.
Hybridizer:

Leone Y. Low

Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA

Leone Y. Low
, Ohio, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1998
Awards:

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 2016.AM(e) 2016; 
Special Class:
ADS Miniatures

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

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

Seed Parent: 
Silken Sails 3 W-WWY 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1964
Green Island x Chinese White
Silken Sails
Pollen Parent: 
N. triandrus Division 13 Species
Section: Ganymedes
N. triandrus
Seedling Number:
RO-1
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. variable in width but usually about 45 mm; perianth segments blunt, plane; corona cylindrical. Variable size.

Origin of Name

This daffodil is named ‘Roundita’ because the petals, cup and overall impression of the daffodil is round.

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RounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #58564 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsRounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #58563 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsRounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #58562 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsRounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #39151 Kirby Fong, USARounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #39150 Kirby Fong, USARounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #32573 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsRounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #2660 Kirby Fong, USARounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #2659 Kirby Fong, USARounditaRoundita, 1 Y-Y, Leone Y. Low, United States, 1998
Photo #2658 Kirby Fong, USA