Rip van Winkle
Classification:
4 Y-Y[ Double ]
Season:
Very Early
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Unknown

Unknown
, Ireland
Registered:
Yes, before 1884
Special Classes:
Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. about 50 mm wide, pale greenish yellow; perianth and other petaloid segments in several whorls symmetrically superimposed, narrowly ovate and acute, or lanceolate and with prominently incurved mucro, sometimes twisted, with margins tinged green, separated; the outer whorl inflexed; the inner whorls successively more strongly inflexed; corona segments opposite the petaloid segments, a little shorter, clustered at center, more loosely interspersed among the surrounding whorls, obscurely bi-lobed. Variant of N. pumilus?

A description according to Daffodils, narcissus, and how to grow them as a hardy plants for cut… 1907 by Arthur Martin Kirby, “A very rare and interesting doubled form of the single Ajax Minor. A native of Ireland. Dwarf habit. Early and free flowering. The small doubled flowers are pale yellow, and fragrant. Petals pointed and curiously twisted.”

A description according to The Garden Volume 35, Midsummer 1884: “This is a small, narrow-pointed double yellow Daffodil, and is now pretty generally supposed to be a double phase of N. minor, which it resembles in habit time of flowering, and general aspect.

Synonyms:

'Plenus#####'

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Rip van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #58026 Ray Rogers, USA
Rip van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #57294 Susan Duncan, USA
Rip van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #56252 Hein Meeuwissen, the Netherlands
Rip van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #54049 Henry Shejbal, Italy
Rip Van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #52069 Kirby Fong, USA
Rip Van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #46202 Quality Daffodils, England
Rip van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #41473 Kirby Fong, USA
Rip van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #40260 Susan Duncan, USA
Rip van WinkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #35918 Fentongollan Farms, England
Rip van winkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #19912 Ian Scroggy, Northern Ireland
Rip van winkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #16734 Gertrude Hartland, Ireland
Rip van winkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #12660 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA
Rip van winkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #11383 Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs, USA
Rip van winkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #7491 Hein Meeuwissen, the Netherlands
Rip van winkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #6556 Liz Ellwood, USA
Rip van winkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #6508 Mary Durtschi, USA
Rip van winkleRip van Winkle, 4 Y-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, Ireland, 1884
Photo #493 Laura Baxter, USA