Mary Kate
Classification:
2 W-GWP[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Registered:
Yes, 1983
Registrant:

Rathowen Daffodils

Rathowen Daffodils
, Northern Ireland, UK
Seed Parent: 
seedling
Pollen Parent: 
Foundling 6 W-P 
Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1969
Irish Rose x Jenny
Foundling
Seedling Number:
D460
Chromosomes:
27
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Comments

Fl. 83 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, reflexed, plane or with margins incurving, smooth, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, with margins more strongly incurved and occasionally wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth or loosely ribbed, white, with green at base and a broad band of apple blossom pink at rim, mouth more tightly ribbed, straight, regularly frilled, with rim minutely notched. Resembles ‘Elizabeth Ann’ but with the perianth segments more prominently mucronate and a longer corona.