Data specific to Daffodils (Edit)
Division: Division 3 - Small-Cupped
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): White
Description: All white rounded flower. Petals are greenish white, very shallow cup is a pale creamy white w/ grey-green seen faintly in tube. Both seed and pollen fertile (see comments).
Bloom season: L - Late Spring
Height classification: Standard (12.8" to 26.6")
Special Classes: ADS Historics
Hybridizer: Guy L. Wilson
Year of registration: Registered, pre 1937
Country of Origin: Northern Ireland
Seed parent: Silver Plane
Pollen parent: Silver Coin x unknown )
Awards: 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)
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
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
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant
Awards and Recognitions: Other: Award of Merit 1946 and 1948; FCC 1950; PC 1940
Parentage: Silver Plane x (Silver Coin x unknown )
Child plants: 49 child plants

Common names
  • Small Cupped Daffodil
  • Daffodil

Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Apr 22, 2015 5:23 PM concerning plant:
    Bred by one of the world's top hybridizers of white daffodils, Guy Wilson from Northern Ireland, in 1937, this small-flowered, award-winning, all-white classic has a history hard to imagine in the world of daffodil creation. This cultivar is both seed and pollen fertile. It has been utilized in the former capacity 48 times and in the latter role 77 times. For the last 6 decades of the previous century, breeders in most of the English-speaking nations that breed daffodils (8) have used aspects of Chinese White to propagate new daffodils. Named offspring number 103, with 22 other documented seedlings.
    Awards garnishing Chinese White include two Awards of Merit (1948 and 1949), two First Class Certificates (1949 and 1950), and a Preliminary Commendation in 1940. The ADS has included Chinese White on its highly vaunted Historics List.

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