Sleveen
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Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Guy L. Wilson

b 1885 d 1962

Broughshane, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland

Guy L. Wilson
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1960
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Seed Parent: 
Guardian 2 W-Y 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1942
(Niphetos x Trostan) x Kanchenjunga
Guardian
Pollen Parent: 
Greenland 2 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1949
2W-W seedling (Quartz x Naxos) x Chinese White
Greenland
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 102 mm wide, creamy white; perianth segments overlapping; corona with mouth lobed, expanded and slightly frilled, rim dentate and very slightly reflexed.

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SleveenSleveen, 2 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1960
Photo #4949 Wells Knierim, USA