Willamette
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Classification:
2 W-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
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, before 1954
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: 
Tunis 2 W-WWY 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
(King Alfred x unknown)
Tunis
Pollen Parent: 
Mitylene 2 W-Y 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1923
(Beacon x unknown)
Mitylene
Seedling Number:
39C134/1
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. large; perianth segments smooth; corona clear yellow.

Origin of Name

Part of the Mitsch/Havens “Oregon Series”. Named for the river which flows northward between the Oregon Coast Range and Cascade Range, the river and its tributaries form a basin named the Williamette Valley.

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