Tahiti
Classification:
4 Y-O[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1956
Awards:
Special Class:
Seed Parent: 
Falaise 4 W-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1945
Mary Copeland x N. poeticus ?
Falaise
Pollen Parent: 
Ceylon 2 Y-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1943
Marksman x Diolite
Ceylon
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as seed, 17 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. 108 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments very broad outline, rounded or truncate at apex, bright greenish yellow with slight white mucro, overlapping half; outer whorl spreading or a little inflexed, concave; inner whorl more strongly inflexed and more deeply concave; some shorter petaloid segments at center strongly inflexed, margins folded inwards or strongly incurled; cup segments shorter than the petaloid segments and interspersed among them, orange, touched with yellow, frilled.

Origin of Name

Part of J. Lionel Richardson’s series of double daffodils with exotic names.

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TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #49282 Noeline McLaren, New Zealand
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #49076 U.S. National Arboretum, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #49075 U.S. National Arboretum, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #47761 Coleen Toone, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #47760 Coleen Toone, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #47344 Guntis Grants, Latvia
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #47200 Tom Stettner, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #44840 Brenda Lyon, Australia
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #44839 Brenda Lyon, Australia
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #38924 Marguerite Donkin, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #38923 Marguerite Donkin, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #35926 Fentongollan Farms, England
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #32131 John Scheepers Bulbs, Inc., USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #32130 John Scheepers Bulbs, Inc., USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #31064 RHS Yearbook, England
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #13107 Tom Stettner, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #12704 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #8927 Tom Stettner, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #2887 Kirby Fong, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #794 Ben Blake, USA
TahitiTahiti, 4 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1956
Photo #793 Ben Blake, USA