Data specific to Daffodils (Edit)
Division: Division 4 - Double
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): Orange
Description: see comments below
Bloom season: M - Mid Spring
Height classification: Standard (12.8" to 26.6")
Hybridizer: David Jackson
Year of registration: 1992
Country of Origin: Australia
Seed parent: Evans seedling
Pollen parent: 'Career'
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)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 12-26 inches
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Orange
White
Flower Time: Spring
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

Common names
  • Double Daffodil
  • Daffodil

Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Oct 9, 2013 3:01 PM concerning plant:
    RHS at ‘The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database’, available at www.rhs.org.uk describes Zumdish thusly -
    'Fl. 87 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments in several whorls, broadly ovate, blunt, yellowish white (4D), plane, overlapping half; the outer whorl prominently mucronate; the inner whorls successively a little shorter, more inflexed and more concave; the petaloid segments at centre irregularly arranged, strongly inflexed, with margins tightly incurled; corona segments half as long as the petaloid segments, clustered among them at centre, more loosely arranged among the surrounding whorls, orange (28A)',

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