Verdin
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Classification:
7 Y-W[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Variation:
Daffodil color or division may vary as the bloom reaches full maturity.
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1965
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: 
Binkie 2 Y-W 
Guy L. Wilson and W. Wolfhagen, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Binkie
Pollen Parent: 
N. jonquilla Division 13 Species
Section: Jonquilla
N. jonquilla
Seedling Number:
T6/3
Chromosomes:
21
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Verdin
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 1-3 per stem, 25 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, sometimes squarish at apex, soft lemon yellow, touched white at base and along midrib to mucro, spreading, plane or with margins incurling, overlapping a quarter; inner segments with margins wavy; corona short funnel-shaped, loosely ribbed, opening yellow, becoming white, with mouth straight and frilled. Resembles a paler and slightly later-flowered ‘Dickcissel’ and a darker and more rounded ‘Pipit’.

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VerdinVerdin, 7 Y-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #44902 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaVerdinVerdin, 7 Y-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #7867 Linda Van Beck, USAVerdinVerdin, 7 Y-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #467 ADS Photo, USA