Data specific to Daffodils (Edit)
Division: Division 1 - Trumpet (Long Cupped)
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): White
Description: Opens with some yellow, turns white (cup). White petals overlap 1/3 to 1/2 with wavy margins.
Bloom season: M - Mid Spring
Height classification: Standard (12.8" to 26.6")
Special Classes: RHS Historics List
Hybridizer: P. van Deursen
Year of registration: pre 1938
Country of Origin: the Netherlands
Seed parent: Mrs. Ernst H. Krelage
Pollen parent: Roxanne
Awards: Award of Garden Merit
Award of Merit
First Class Certificate
Preliminary Commendation
Links: DaffSeek - Daffodil Database
RHS - Daffodil Register

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 15 - 17 inches
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Green
White
Other: some greenish-yellow highlights
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Spring
Other: Forcible
Inflorescence Height: 17 / 18 inches
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Provides winter interest
Erosion control
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Gophers/Voles
Rabbit Resistant
Squirrels
Drought tolerant
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Bulbs
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Preferred depth: shoulders should clear soil line
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Other: PC, AM. & FCC. 2010 Great Plant Picks award winner
Parentage: Mrs. Ernst H. Krelage x Roxanne
Child plants: 2 child plants

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Common names
  • Trumpet Daffodil
  • Daffodil

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Date: 3-22-2020
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Date: 2022-03-07
large blooms open pale yellow, then change to white with age
Location: southeast Nebraska 
Date: 2011-04-12
Cup fading to white.  Immature bloom below.

Fresh and old blooms
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Date: 2015-04-05
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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-03-18
creamy yellow trumpet turns white as blossom matures
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Date: 2023-03-13
Location: Iowa
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2020-03-27
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-03-18
bloomsoms are over 4-inches wide

Date: c. 1966
photo from the Daffodil Handbook, special issue of the 'American
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Date: 3-27-2020
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Date: 2017-05-15
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Date: May 10, 2014
In Light Shade
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Date: 2013-05-20
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Date: 2019-03-23
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Date: 2018-04-26
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Date: 2017-04-12
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Date: 2017-04-12
Location: Keukenhof Gardens, Netherlands
Date: 2018-04-25
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Date: May 10, 2014
Close Up In Mild Sunlight
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Date: May 10, 2014
Close Up In Mild Sunlight
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Date: May 10, 2014
In Sunlight

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Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2012-04-03
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Date: 2011-04-20
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Date: 12-5-19

Date: 2016-04-23

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Date: 2015-03-24
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Date: 2014-10-11
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Date: 2018-04-25
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Date: 2016-03-01
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Date: 2011-07-01

Date: 2008-04-24

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Date: 2015-03-31
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Date: 2012-03-29

Date: 2015-03-24
Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Oct 6, 2013 10:05 PM concerning plant:
    A very successful white daffodil that has received a multitude of awards.
    Described by the RHS as 'Fl. 102 mm wide, creamy white; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, only very slightly mucronate, inflexed, with margins incurling at apex, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, more nearly acute, angled at shoulder, reflexed towards apex, with margins wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, opening light greenish yellow 6D, mouth ribbed and expanded, with rim flanged and regularly notched and crenate.
    The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database’, available at www.rhs.org.uk
    Good cultivar to force over winter. May subsequently be translocated to garden to bloom in following years.
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