Skyfire
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Classification:
2 W-P/W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1984
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2000
Registrant:

Richard and Elise Havens

Richard Havens b 1940, d 2014

Elise Havens, daughter of Grant E. Mitsch

Richard and Elise Havens of Hubbard, Oregon, USA, continued her father's business "Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils" from 1989 though 2015.

Richard and Elise Havens
, Oregon, USA
Seed Parent: 
(
Silken Sails 3 W-WWY 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1964
Green Island x Chinese White
Silken Sails
x
Cool Flame 2 W-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1969
Precedent x Accent
Cool Flame
)
Pollen Parent: 
Magician 2 W-R 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1979
(Accent x Rose Caprice) x Cool Flame
Magician
Seedling Number:
2T18/3
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 100 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, somewhat truncate, spreading, plane, with margins minutely incurling at apex, overlapping half; the inner segments slightly inflexed, with margins more strongly incurled; corona more or less disc-shaped, very broad, ribbed, brilliant reddish pink, with patches of white at margins, mouth deeply 6-lobed, with the lobes somewhat bi-lobed, loosely frilled.

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SkyfireSkyfire, 2 W-P/W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 2000
Photo #3794 Elise Havens, USASkyfireSkyfire, 2 W-P/W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 2000
Photo #2769 Kirby Fong, USA