Broughshane
Classification:
1 W-W[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Raiser:
Registered:
Yes, before 1938
Seed Parent: 
Trostan 1 W-Y 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
King Alfred x Askelon
Trostan
Pollen Parent: 
Kanchenjunga 1 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1934
Brodie 1W-W seedling (White Knight x Conqueror) x Askelon
Kanchenjunga
Seedling Number:
25/31
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
33 times as seed, 67 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 135 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, only slightly mucronate, greenish white, spreading, ribbed, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, inflexed at base, recurved near apex, with margins wavy; corona somewhat funnel-shaped, lightly ribbed, opening with tinges of primrose yellow, becoming amber white, rim widely flanged and deeply dentate.

Origin of Name

Named after Guy Wilson’s home village of Broughshane in County Atrim, Northern Ireland.