White Caps
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Classification:
6 W-Y[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
1958
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, 1968
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: 
Mitylene 2 W-Y 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1923
(Beacon x unknown)
Mitylene
Pollen Parent: 
N. cyclamineus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. cyclamineus
Seedling Number:
T35/10
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for White Caps
Fertility:
Believed to be Seed fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 64 mm wide; corona lemon yellow. Resembles a smaller-flowered and more robust ‘Dove Wings’ with the perianth segments more strongly reflexed.

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White capsWhite Caps, 6 W-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1968
Photo #5023 Wells Knierim, USAWhite capsWhite Caps, 6 W-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1968
Photo #1066 Tommy Dunn, USA