Shillingstone
Classification:
8 W-W[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
1978
Hybridizer:

John W. Blanchard

b 1930, crd 1954.
Blandford, Dorset, England.
In partnership until 1968 with Douglas Blanchard

John W. Blanchard
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1998
Special Classes:
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

, The Daffodil Society Miniatures
Seed Parent: 
Ringstead 3 W-YYO 
Douglas and John W. Blanchard, England
Year Registered: 1968
Hamzali x Matapan
Ringstead
Pollen Parent: 
N. dubius Division 13 Species
Section: Tazettae
N. dubius
Seedling Number:
72/25D
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 1-2 or exceptionally 3 per stem, 40 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, mucronate, spreading, with midrib showing, overlapping half; the inner segments less noticeably mucronate, with margins slightly wavy; corona bowl-shaped, ribbed, with mouth straight and wavy.

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ShillingstoneShillingstone, 8 W-W, John W. Blanchard, England, 1998
Photo #9301 Kirby Fong, USAShillingstoneShillingstone, 8 W-W, John W. Blanchard, England, 1998
Photo #9300 Kirby Fong, USAShillingstoneShillingstone, 8 W-W, John W. Blanchard, England, 1998
Photo #6070 Steve Taylor, USA