Tropic Paradise
Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1976
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, 2004
Registrant:

Richard and Elise Havens

Richard Havens b 1940, d 2014

Elise Havens, daughter of Grant E. Mitsch

Richard and Elise Havens of Hubbard, Oregon, USA, continued her father's business "Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils" from 1989 though 2015.

Richard and Elise Havens
, Oregon, USA
Seed Parent: 
[ (
Mabel Taylor 2 W-WPP 
Alister Clark, Australia
Year Registered: 1955
Mabel Taylor
x
Green Island 2 W-GWY 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Gracious x Seraglio
Green Island
) x
Caro Nome 2 W-WPP 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1954
Green Island x Glenshane
Caro Nome
]
Pollen Parent: 
Space Ship 2 W-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1974
[(Precedent x Carita) x (Radiation x Mabel Taylor)] x Interim
Space Ship
Seedling Number:
2L20/2
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 120 mm wide, gradually facing up; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, spreading, somewhat concave, with margins slightly incurling, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; corona very shallow bowl-shaped, very broad, closely ribbed, bright pink, mouth widely expanded, frilled, with rim crenate.

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Tropic ParadiseTropic Paradise, 2 W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 2004
Photo #49287 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandTropic paradiseTropic Paradise, 2 W-P, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 2004
Photo #3822 Elise Havens, USA