Ceylon
Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, before 1943
Awards:
Seed Parent: 
Marksman 2 Y-O 
Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson and Gwendolen Evelyn, Wales
Year Registered: 1930
Hospodar x A.M. Wilson 2Y-R seedling~
Marksman
Pollen Parent: 
Diolite 2 Y-YYO 
Alexander (Alec) M. Wilson and Gwendolen Evelyn, Wales
Year Registered: 1930
Hospodar ? x A.M. Wilson 2Y-R seedling~
Diolite
Chromosomes:
27 or 28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
22 times as seed, 54 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 100 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, vivid yellow with white mucro, spreading or slightly inflexed, plane, with a metallic sheen, with midrib showing, overlapping 1/3 to a 1/2 the inner segments a little narrower, sometimes with a ‘thumb’ at the margin, inflexed, a little creased and with margins slightly wavy; corona short funnel-shaped, vivid orange mouth straight, split in places and overlapping, lightly frilled, with rim crenate.

Received the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS) Award of Garden Merit(AGM) in 1995 and the award was rescinded by the RHS in 2012.

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CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #57646 Becky Fox Matthews, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #57645 Becky Fox Matthews, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #51803 Kirby Fong, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #51802 Kirby Fong, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #51801 Kirby Fong, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #48910 U.S. National Arboretum, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #47031 Gladden Willis, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #41796 Mary Durtschi, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #40501 Becky Fox Matthews, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #36508 Tom Stettner, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #32160 John Scheepers Bulbs, Inc., USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #31382 RHS Yearbook, England
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #24212 U.S. National Arboretum, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #21441 Ralph Sowell, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #15657 Carlos van der Veek, the Netherlands
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #15656 Carlos van der Veek, the Netherlands
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #13907 Kirby Fong, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #13649 Derrick Turbitt, Northern Ireland
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #12227 Loyce McKenzie, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #12211 Keith Kridler, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #8412 Bob Isaak, USA
CeylonCeylon, 2 Y-O, J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland, 1943
Photo #1377 Kirby Fong, USA