Alabaster
Classification:
4 W-W[ Double ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1952
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1972
Special Class:
ADS Intermediates

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Intermediate-Sized Daffodils".

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

Seed Parent: 
Cushendall 3 W-GWW 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1931
Emerald Eye x Dactyl
Cushendall
Pollen Parent: 
Cantabile 9 W-GYR 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1932
Dactyl x Raeburn
Cantabile
Chromosomes:
14
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 65 mm wide, pure white; perianth and other petaloid segments in several whorls; the two outer whorls broad, rounded, overlapping; the inner whorls clustered and irregular. Somewhat resembles a later-flowered and more prolific ‘Sweet Music’.

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AlabasterAlabaster, 4 W-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1972
Photo #5093 Grant E. Mitsch, USA