Spitzbergen
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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, before 1943
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1947.AM(e) 1947; 
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: 
Cameronian 1 W-W 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1930
Thira x Askelon
Cameronian
Pollen Parent: 
Slemish 2 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1930
Findhorn x Beersheba
Slemish
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
21 times as seed, 2 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. about 120 mm wide; perianth segments broad, sulfur white, with margins wavy, overlapping; corona greenish yellow, with rim flanged and dentate.

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SpitzbergenSpitzbergen, 1 W-Y, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #5457 J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland