Second Fiddle
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Classification:
6 W-Y[ Cyclamineus ]
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:

Keira Bulbs

Kambah, ACT, Australia

Keira Bulbs
, ACT, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 2001
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: 
Gipsy Queen 1 YYW-WWY 
Alec Gray, England
Year Registered: 1969
N. minor x N. asturiensis
Gipsy Queen
Pollen Parent: 
N. cyclamineus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. cyclamineus
Seedling Number:
K15/95
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Second Fiddle
Used as parent:
1 time as seed, 4 times as pollen
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Second Fiddle
Comments

Fl. 43 mm wide, facing down; perianth segments narrowly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, yellowish white, reflexed, smooth, plane, overlapping a quarter; corona cylindrical, smooth at base, loosely ribbed towards mouth, vivid yellow, mouth flared, deeply and widely notched, with rim dentate.

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Second FiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #59910 Kirby Fong, USASecond FiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #59909 Kirby Fong, USASecond FiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #59908 Kirby Fong, USASecond FiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #38407 Anne Wright, EnglandSecond FiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #38406 Anne Wright, EnglandSecond fiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #7349 Becky Fox Matthews, USASecond fiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #2721 Kirby Fong, USASecond fiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #2720 Kirby Fong, USASecond fiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #2719 Kirby Fong, USASecond fiddleSecond Fiddle, 6 W-Y, Keira Bulbs, Australia, 2001
Photo #2718 Kirby Fong, USA