Fawnglo
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Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
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, 1960
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: 
(
King of the North 1 Y-Y 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1909
King Alfred x Glory of Noordwijk
King of the North
x
Content 1 W-WWY 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Lord Antrim ? x Beersheba ?
Content
)
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Fawnglo
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as seed
Descendants:
Descendants TreeClick this icon to display the Descendants of Fawnglo
Comments

A description according to 1974 Jefferson-Brown catalog: “A personal favorite of mine in cool haunting tones. A borderline flower in two respects as it might just as well be classed 2D as the crown does become lighter than the perianth, and the measurement it is nearly a trumpet. I produces many fine-spun flowers of unusual creamy buff, that sometimes carries a luminescent pinkish tone in the crown.”

Synonyms:

'Fawnglow'

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FawngloFawnglo, 2 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1960
Photo #4687 Wells Knierim, USA