Whitehead
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Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

W.J. (Willy) Dunlop

d 1990. Ballymena, Co.Antrim, N.Ireland; Broughshane, Co.Antrim

W.J. (Willy) Dunlop
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1953
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: 
White Sentinel 2 W-Y 
Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England
Year Registered: 1915
Beacon x 2 W-W seedling~
White Sentinel
Pollen Parent: 
Kanchenjunga 1 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1934
Brodie 1W-W seedling (White Knight x Conqueror) x Askelon
Kanchenjunga
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, not noticeably mucronate, spreading, with margins sometimes nicked, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, square-shouldered at base, more obviously mucronate; corona short funnel-shaped, opening cream, soon becoming pure white, with mouth straight and wavy.

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WhiteheadWhitehead, 2 W-W, W.J. (Willy) Dunlop, Northern Ireland, 1953
Photo #42468 Ian Scroggy, Northern IrelandWhiteheadWhitehead, 2 W-W, W.J. (Willy) Dunlop, Northern Ireland, 1953
Photo #26077 Dunlop Catalog, Northern Ireland