Mitylene
Classification:
2 W-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, before 1923
Awards:
Seed Parent: 
(
Beacon 3 W-R 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1897
Princess Mary x (N. poeticus var. recurvus x poet ?)
Beacon
x unknown )
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
71 times as seed, 3 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 107 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, milk white, spreading, with margins a little wavy, overlapping one-third; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, acute, a little inflexed, with margins more strongly wavy; corona widely expanded, narrowly ribbed, primrose yellow, with mouth straight and wavy.