Shawmut
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Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
2021
Hybridizer:

Clay Higgins

Clay Higgins
, New Jersey, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2023
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: 
Pink China 2 W-P 
Richard and Elise Havens, United States
Year of first flowering: 1983
Pink Ice x HEJ17/
Pink China
Pollen Parent: 
Elka 1 W-W 
Alec Gray, England
Year of first flowering: 1967
Elka
Seedling Number:
18-31
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Shawmut
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 48mm wide; perianth segments 20mm long, ovate, blunt, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping to one-third; the inner segments narrower, with margins incurling or wavy; corona 17mm long, cup-shaped, broadly ribbed, mouth straight and wavy, with rim entire. Dwarf. Mid-season

Origin of Name

Tiny fishing village of Shawmut, discovered by the Pilgrims, becoming the American city of Boston.

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Photo #62117 Clay Higgins, USAShawmutShawmut, 2 W-P, Clay Higgins, United States, 2023
Photo #62116 Clay Higgins, USA