Sun Chariot
Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 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:
This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1963. *AM(g) 1963; This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition.

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1956. FCC Haarlem 1956; This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

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

Awarded by the Dutch "Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur" (KAVB), or in English, the "Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association" from Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1954. AM Haarlem 1954; 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 1951. AM(e) 1951;
Special Class:
ADS Classics
Seed Parent: 
Marksman 2 Y-O 
Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson and Gwendolen Evelyn, Wales
Year Registered: 1930
Hospodar x A.M. Wilson 2Y-R seedling~
Marksman
Pollen Parent: 
Porthilly 2 Y-O 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Porthilly
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
7 times as seed, 10 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 114 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, fairly prominently mucronate, vivid yellow, spreading, plane, with margins minutely incurling, regular, overlapping one-third; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, a little inflexed; corona short funnel-shaped, orange, paler at base, with mouth straight and regularly frilled. Sunproof.

The 1946 issue of the Herbertia, the pollen parent is ‘Rustom Pasha’.

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