Uncle Bob
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Classification:
2 YYW-WWP[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Mitchell W. Carney

Boonsboro, Maryland, USA

Mitchell W. Carney
, Maryland, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2012
Special Class:
ADS Intermediates

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Intermediate-Sized Daffodils".

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

Seed Parent: 
Lemon Sails 2 Y-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year of first flowering: 1978
(Playboy x Daydream) x open pollinated
Lemon Sails
Pollen Parent: 
Carib Gipsy 2 Y-WWY 
A.J.R. (John) Pearson, England
Year Registered: 1987
Camelot x Daydream
Carib Gipsy
Seedling Number:
02-28-02
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Uncle Bob
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl.  78mm wide; forming a double triangle,  perianth segments 30mm long, broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, yellow, with a band of white at base, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping one-third to a half; corona 26mm long, cylindrical, smooth, opening yellow, becoming white, with a broad band of pink at rim, mouth flared, ribbed, wavy and irregularly lobed, with rim minutely crenate. Sunproof. Intermediate Size.

Origin of Name

This daffodil is named for the hybridizer’s uncle, Robert Sperber.

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Uncle BobUncle Bob, 2 YYW-WWP, Mitchell W. Carney, United States, 2012
Photo #50490 Kirby Fong, USAUncle BobUncle Bob, 2 YYW-WWP, Mitchell W. Carney, United States, 2012
Photo #50489 Kirby Fong, USAUncle BobUncle Bob, 2 YYW-WWP, Mitchell W. Carney, United States, 2012
Photo #33107 Rose Bradley, USAUncle bobUncle Bob, 2 YYW-WWP, Mitchell W. Carney, United States, 2012
Photo #30002 Tom Stettner, USAUncle bobUncle Bob, 2 YYW-WWP, Mitchell W. Carney, United States, 2012
Photo #30001 Tom Stettner, USA