Albatross
Classification:
3 W-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

b 1851 d 1936

Appleshaw, Hampshire, England; Dinton, Wiltshire

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

photo of Rev. George Herbert Engleheart via the Wiltshire OPC Project

Rev. G.H. Engleheart
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1891
Awards:

FCC Award

This plant earned the First Class Certificate (FCC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1944.FCC 1944; 
Special Class:
ADS Historics

The ADS defines a Historic Daffodil as any cultivar formally registered with the Royal Horticultural Society or known in gardens prior to 1940.

The year 1939 at the end of this period, marked the beginning of World War II, a time during which fewer new daffodil cultivars were either created or made available, especially in Europe.

The ADS believes this class will interest a segment of exhibitors and may encourage bulb growers to keep these pre-war era cultivars available.

Because Historic daffodils tend to have less form than modern daffodils, they mmay be exhibited in special classes to compete against others iths same class.

Seed Parent: 
Ornatus 9 W-YYR 
James Walker, England
Year Registered: 1870
Ornatus
Pollen Parent: 
Empress 1 W-Y 
William Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1869
N. bicolor x N. pseudonarcissus
Empress
Seedling Number:
21
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
10 times as seed
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. to 127 mm diameter; perianth segments broadly ovate, rounded or squarish at apex, prominently mucronate, clear white, spreading or slightly inflexed, with margins wavy or incurved, sometimes recurved in lower half, with midrib showing, separated at base, sometimes overlapping at mid-point; inner segments more narrowly ovate, slightly mucronate; cup is bowl-shaped, ribbed, pale lemon yellow, with defined orange band at rim, mouth straight, loosely frilled, rim notched. Resembles its sibling ‘Seagull’ but with a contrasting color at corona rim.

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AlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #57680 Christopher Harley, USAAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #57011 Jason Delaney PHS Daffodils, USAAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #46875 Henry George Moon, EnglandAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #40486 Becky Fox Matthews, USAAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #40485 Becky Fox Matthews, USAAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #34656 Kirby Fong, USAAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #33139 Ian Tyler, EnglandAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #25850 R.H. Bath, Ltd., EnglandAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #15918 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #15917 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #6620 Joe Hamm, USAAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #6619 Joe Hamm, USAAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #1102 Kirby Fong, USAAlbatrossAlbatross, 3 W-YYO, Rev. G.H. Engleheart, England, 1891
Photo #1101 Kirby Fong, USA