Saint Keverne
Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1930
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1934
Awards:
Seed Parent: 
(
Royalist 1 Y-Y 
Dr. Nynian Yeo Lower, Wales
Year Registered: 1914
Cleopatra x Broadford
Royalist
x unknown )
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
54 times as seed, 17 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 100 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, vivid yellow, with white mucro, spreading, plane, margins sometimes slightly incurling, very smooth, overlapping 1/3; inner segments more narrowly ovate, slightly inflexed, margins a little wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth or lightly ribbed, darker in tone than the perianth, mouth a little expanded, rim flanged, deeply notched and minutely crenate.

Origin of Name

‘St Keverne’ is named after the village on the Lizard Peninsula . This daffodil was probably raised by P.D., ‘St Keverne’ and was named and registered by his son Michael in 1934. Named for the location, Lanarth, St. Keverne, Cornwall, where P,D. Williams raised daffodils until his death in 1935 at the age of 70.

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Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #55325 Ben Blake, USA
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #55324 Ben Blake, USA
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #55282 Bradley McCarson, USA
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #49871 Lawrence Trevanion, Australia
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #47958 Kirby Fong, USA
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #47957 Kirby Fong, USA
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #42138 Carlos van der Veek, the Netherlands
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #40315 Tom Stettner, USA
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #31431 RHS Yearbook, England
Saint KeverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #31422 RHS Yearbook, England
Saint keverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #13090 Tom Stettner, USA
Saint keverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #11384 Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs, USA
Saint keverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #9285 Kirby Fong, USA
Saint keverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #7998 Ben Blake, USA
Saint keverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #7997 Ben Blake, USA
Saint keverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #7341 Becky Fox Matthews, USA
Saint keverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #2681 Kirby Fong, USA
Saint keverneSaint Keverne, 2 Y-Y, Michael Percival Williams, England, 1934
Photo #2680 Kirby Fong, USA