Avalanche
Classification:
8 W-Y[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1906
Selected by:
, Isles of Scilly, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1955
Awards:
Special Classes:
Seed Parent: 
Pollen Parent: 
Selection of: 
Grand Monarque 8 W-Y 
: Unknown, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1759
N. tazetta subsp. lacticolor
Grand Monarque
Chromosomes:
31 + 1B
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
15 times as seed
Descendants:
Comments

Flowering date pre1906; Fls about 10 per stem, 33 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, reflexed, concave, ribbed, overlapping half; the inner segments truncate; corona bowl-shaped, brilliant greenish yellow, smooth, mouth straight or slightly constricted, with some shallow lobing, rim entire. Strongly scented. Grand Monarque select form.

It is said that Avalanche was found growing on the side of a cliff above the Isles of Scilly.

Synonyms:

'Seventeen Sisters in the South', 'Seventeen Sisters#'

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AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #62335 John Scheepers Beauty from Bulbs, USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #57868 Sue Taylor, England
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #53469 John E. Colley, England
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #38509 Bradley McCarson, USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #32060 John Scheepers Bulbs, Inc., USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #21270 Trevor Rollinson, New Zealand
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #20259 Brenda Lyon, Australia
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #16278 Ian Scroggy, Northern Ireland
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #15211 Theodore E. Snazelle, USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #13799 Kirby Fong, USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #11421 Ben Blake, USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #11350 Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs, USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #10145 Gordon Coombes, New Zealand
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #9944 Ralph Sowell, USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #7585 Ian Scroggy, Northern Ireland
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #5670 Tom Stettner, USA
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #3940 Tony James, England
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #3939 Tony James, England
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #3938 Tony James, England
AvalancheAvalanche, 8 W-Y, T.M. Dorrien Smith, Isles of Scilly, 1955
Photo #1189 Kirby Fong, USA