Uncle Jim
Classification:
10 Y-Y[ Bulbocodium Hybrids ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Clay Higgins

Clay Higgins
, New Jersey, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2018
Seed Parent: 
Spoirot 10 W-W 
Glenbrook Bulb Farm, Australia
Year Registered: 1998
N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. conspicuus x N. cantabricus subsp. cantabricus var. foliosus
Spoirot
Pollen Parent: 
N. romieuxii subsp. romieuxii var. mesatlanticus Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. romieuxii subsp. romieuxii var. mesatlanticus
Seedling Number:
13-11A
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 42mm wide, facing upwards; perianth segments 8mm long, lanceolate, acute, light lemon yellow, with paler mucro, spreading, plane, of heavy substance, separated; corona 30mm long, funnel-shaped, broadly ribbed, light lemon yellow, mouth shallowly lobed and slightly constricted, with rim minutely crenate.  ‘Uncle Jim’ and “Artie Lemons’ are from the same grex or seed pod’.

Origin of Name

‘Artie Lemons’ is the hybridizer’s mother and ‘Uncle Jim’ is the hybridizer’s  real uncle and his mother’s brother.