Taspride
Classification:
4 Y-Y[ Double ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1977
Hybridizer:

Harold G. Cross

Harold G. Cross
, Tasmania, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 1992
Seed Parent: 
(
Kingscourt 1 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Royalist x Crocus
Kingscourt
x
Fiji 4 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1956
Falaise x Ceylon
Fiji
)
Pollen Parent: 
Fiji 4 Y-Y 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1956
Falaise x Ceylon
Fiji
Seedling Number:
S286
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 95 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments in three whorls; the two outer whorls of about equal length, broadly or very broadly ovate, blunt or somewhat truncate, brilliant yellow with white mucro, a little inflexed, with margins sometimes slightly incurling, smooth, overlapping half; the center whorl strongly inflexed, with margins heavily incurled; corona segments half to three-quarters the length of the perianth segments, broad, vivid yellow, some clustered at center, strongly inflexed and closely frilled, some loosely interspersed among the petaloid segments, more nearly spreading, with margins wavy.

Origin of Name

Part of Harold Cross’ “Tas Series”.