Solveig's Song
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Classification:
12 Y-Y[ Miscellaneous ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Rannveig Wallis

Lower Beeding, Sussex, England; Porthyrhyd, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Rannveig Wallis
, Wales, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1992
Awards:

PC Award

This plant earned the Certificate of Preliminary Commendation (PC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to a new plant of promise for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1997.PC 1997; 
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: 
N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. tenuifolius Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. tenuifolius
Pollen Parent: 
N. triandrus subsp. pallidulus Division 13 Species
Section: Ganymedes
N. triandrus subsp. pallidulus
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

RHS Note: Other plants not answering to this color description have been circulated under this name; Fls usually one per stem, 52 mm wide outward facing, usually at right angles to the stem; perianth segments lanceolate, blunt, brilliant greenish yellow, spreading, twisted, with margins wavy, smooth, with midrib showing, regular, separated; corona funnel-shaped, lightly ribbed, darker in tone than the perianth, with mouth even and slightly incurved, rim almost entire.

Origin of Name

Daffodil is named after Rannveig Wallis’s sister.

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Solveig's SongSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #38438 Anne Wright, EnglandSolveig's SongSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #38437 Anne Wright, EnglandSolveig's SongSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #38436 Anne Wright, EnglandSolveig's SongSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #38435 Anne Wright, EnglandSolveig's SongSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #35683 Kirby Fong, USASolveig's songSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #16861 Jon Kawaguchi, USASolveig's songSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #15431 Nancy Tackett, USASolveig's songSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #12690 Mary Lou Gripshover, USASolveig's songSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #8603 Jon Kawaguchi, USASolveig's songSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #8602 Jon Kawaguchi, USASolveig's songSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #8601 Jon Kawaguchi, USASolveig's songSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #8336 Mary Lou Gripshover, USASolveig's songSolveig's Song, 12 Y-Y, Rannveig Wallis, Wales, 1992
Photo #3545 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA