Velvet Robe
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Classification:
2 Y-R[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1956
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, 1966
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Seed Parent: 
Playboy 2 Y-O 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1944
Carbineer x Rosslare
Playboy
Pollen Parent: 
Paricutin 2 Y-R 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1952
Klingo x Ardour
Paricutin
Seedling Number:
R63/2
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed, 3 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. rounded, 108 mm wide; perianth segments rich golden yellow, deeply overlapping; corona very shallow bowl-shaped, large, deep orange-red. Resembles a larger a later-flowered ‘Paricutin’ with a paler corona.

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Velvet robeVelvet Robe, 2 Y-R, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1966
Photo #5170 Grant E. Mitsch, USA