Kingbird
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Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
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, 1969
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: 
(
Narvik 2 Y-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1940
Carbineer x Porthilly
Narvik
x
Playboy 2 Y-O 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1944
Carbineer x Rosslare
Playboy
)
Pollen Parent: 
Velvet Robe 2 Y-R 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year of first flowering: 1956
Playboy x Paricutin
Velvet Robe
Seedling Number:
Y51/4
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed,1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Perianth segments clear soft yellow, overlapping; corona cup-shaped, deeper in tone than the perianth.

Origin of Name

Part of Grant Mitsch’s Bird Series.

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KingbirdKingbird, 2 Y-Y, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1969
Photo #12312 Lawrence Trevanion, Australia