Silver Pearls
Classification:
8 W-W[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
2007
Hybridizer:

Brian S. Duncan

Rathowen Daffodils, in partnership with Clarke Campbell (1973-1988), Dergmoney, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland;

Founded Brian Duncan Daffodils 1989 - 2001

Brian S. Duncan

Photo from Spain in 2011

Brian S. Duncan
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2020
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: 
Silver Crystal 3 W-GWW 
Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1983
Cool Crystal x Monksilver
Silver Crystal
Pollen Parent: 
N. dubius Division 13 Species
Section: Tazettae
N. dubius
Seedling Number:
3315
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 2 per stem, 41mm wide, facing upwards; perianth segments 16mm long, roundish, very broad, prominently mucronate, spreading, plane or with margins a little incurved, creased and of membranaceous substance, overlapping half; the inner
segments scarcely mucronate; corona 11mm long, cup-shaped, smooth, mouth a little expanded, ribbed and wavy, with rim entire. 

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Silver PearlsSilver Pearls, 8 W-W, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 2020
Photo #53281 Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland