Limpkin
Classification:
2 W-WWY[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, 1975
Seed Parent: 
Aircastle 3 W-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1958
Green Island x Chinese White
Aircastle
Pollen Parent: 
Homage 2 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1955
(Nelly x Chinese White) x (Tryst x Foggy Dew)
Homage
Seedling Number:
D21/2
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
8 times as seed
Comments

Fl. rounded, 102 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, rounded at apex, only very slightly mucronate, ivory white, spreading, concave, overlapping half or more; the inner segments a little inflexed; corona shallow bowl-shaped, ribbed, ivory white, with a narrow band of golden yellow at rim, mouth straight, sometimes deeply split and overlapping, frilled. Resembles a whiter ‘Aircastle’ with a slightly larger corona.

Origin of Name

Part of Grant Mitsch’s “Bird Series”. Named after the bird, Limpkin, which lives in swamps & woods in southeastern U.S..