Sumptuous
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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1957
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, 1967
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: 
Paul Bunyan 1 Y-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1952
Aerolite x Kandahar
Paul Bunyan
Pollen Parent: 
Content 1 W-WWY 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Lord Antrim ? x Beersheba ?
Content
Seedling Number:
R55/1
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 121 mm wide; perianth segments milk white; corona clear yellow.

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SumptuousSumptuous, 1 W-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1967
Photo #5161 Grant E. Mitsch, USA