Data specific to Daffodils (Edit)
Division: Division 2 - Large-Cupped
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): White
Description: Large flat pure white cup fronts white perianth Fertile.
Bloom season: ML - Mid to Late Spring
Height classification: Standard (12.8" to 26.6")
Special Classes: ADS Classics
Hybridizer: Guy L. Wilson
Year of registration: 1960
Country of Origin: Northern Ireland
Origin of name: purity of color?
Seed parent: (Nelly x Chinese White)
Pollen parent: ('Evening' x 'Foyle')
Awards: Award of Merit
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: 16 to 18"
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Green
White
Other: all white w/ green eye
Bloom Size: 3"-4"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Other: Forcible
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Provides winter interest
Erosion control
Groundcover
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Gophers/Voles
Rabbit Resistant
Squirrels
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 visible
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant
Awards and Recognitions: Other: Award of Merit 1978
Parentage: (Nelly x Chinese White ) x ( Evening x Foyle)
Child plants: 12 child plants

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Common names
  • Large-cupped Daffodil
  • Long-cupped Narcissus
  • Daffodil

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Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Jun 4, 2013 1:47 PM concerning plant:
    Described by vendors as 'ultimate of pristine perfection' and 'w/ luminous green eye' this cultivar is a blue ribbon winner. Bred by Guy Wilson the best white daffodil hybridizer in the last century.
    RHS description - 'Fl. 95 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate in outline, blunt or truncate at apex, slightly mucronate, spreading, with midrib showing, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, a little inflexed, with margins wavy; corona shallow bowl-shaped, broad, ribbed, bluish white, with mouth even, rim crenate.' (www.rhs.org.uk)
    Seed and pollen fertile- used in breeding crosses as seed 8 time, as pollen 16 times.

    Forcible; once forced may be relocated to garden for bloom in subsequent seasons.
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