Algeciras
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Classification:
3 W-O[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

J. Lionel Richardson

b 1890 d 1961

crd 1911. Waterford, Co. Waterford, Republic of Ireland

J. Lionel Richardson
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, 1956
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1956.AM(e) 1956; 
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: 
Mahmoud 3 W-R 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Folly x Sunstar
Mahmoud
Pollen Parent: 
Khartum 3 W-R 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Coronach x Hades
Khartum
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Algeciras
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 77 mm diameter; perianth segments very broad, rounded at apex and prominently mucronate, creamy white, slightly reflexed, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, ovate, sometimes truncate, only slightly mucronate; corona almost disc-shaped, ribbed, orange, mouth straight and frilled, with lobes sometimes overlapping.

Origin of Name

Part of Lionel Richardson’s “World War II Battles Series”. Named after Algeciras which was part of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

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AlgecirasAlgeciras, 3 W-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #31129 RHS Yearbook, EnglandAlgecirasAlgeciras, 3 W-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #4531 Wells Knierim, USA