Mary Copeland
Classification:
4 W-O[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, before 1913
Awards:
Seed Parent: 
Division 9 seedling
Pollen Parent: 
Orange Phoenix 4 W-O 
: Unknown,
Year Registered: 1731
Orange Phoenix
Chromosomes:
21
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
10 times as seed,1 time as pollen
Comments

Fl. 95-100 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments broadly ovate, blunt or somewhat truncate, glistening white, with creamy sulfur yellow at base, overlapping; the outer whorl spreading or a little inflexed, mucronate; the inner whorl of about the same length, less noticeably mucronate, a little inflexed, with margins incurling; three white segments at center shorter, strongly inflexed, with margins deeply incurled; corona segments very short, some interspersed among the petaloid segments, some clustered at center and almost continuous, orange, with a broad suffusion of scarlet-orange at rim, frilled. Scented.

Origin of Name

Named after the hybridizer’s daughter, Mary Copeland. This daffodil was registered one year after Mary’s birth.