Taffeta
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Classification:
10 W-W[ Bulbocodium Hybrids ]
Season:
Fall or Autumn Blooming
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Douglas Blanchard

b 1887 d 1968

Blandford, Dorset, England. In partnership from 1954 with J.W.Blanchard

Douglas Blanchard
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1952
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. cantabricus subsp. cantabricus var. foliosus Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. cantabricus subsp. cantabricus var. foliosus
Pollen Parent: 
N. romieuxii Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. romieuxii
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 40mm wide; opening greenish yellow, becoming ice white; perianth segments lanceolate, with a broad band of strong green from base to apex beneath, strongly inflexed, separated; cup is as long as the perianth segments, funnel-shaped, with mouth very slightly wavy, rim minutely, shallowly and irregularly crenate. Similar to ‘Tarlatan’ but not as large.

Origin of Name

Part of Blanchard’s ‘Fabric Group’.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos  

TaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #50029 Becky Fox Matthews, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #38456 Anne Wright, EnglandTaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #11339 Jon Kawaguchi, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #11338 Jon Kawaguchi, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #7887 Robert Wiseman, EnglandTaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #7088 Jon Kawaguchi, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #7087 Jon Kawaguchi, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #7086 Jon Kawaguchi, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #7085 Jon Kawaguchi, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #7084 Jon Kawaguchi, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #4513 Jon Kawaguchi, USATaffetaTaffeta, 10 W-W, Douglas Blanchard, England, 1952
Photo #2886 Kirby Fong, USA