Aviva
Classification:
1 W-W[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Variation:
Daffodil color or division may vary as the bloom reaches full maturity.
Hybridizer:

Leone Y. Low

Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA

Leone Y. Low
, Ohio, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2002
Special Class:
ADS Miniatures

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

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

Seed Parent: 
N. minor Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. minor
Pollen Parent: 
Candlepower 1 W-W 
Alec Gray, England
Year Registered: 1975
Candlepower
Seedling Number:
536-1
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. variable in width but usually about 45 mm; perianth segments blunt, plane; cup is cylindrical.

Origin of Name

This daffodil is named after the daughter of her maid of honor. Aviva is the Swahili word for life.

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AvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #61341 Kirby Fong, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #61340 Kirby Fong, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #50453 Tom Stettner, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #48325 Kirby Fong, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #13032 Tom Stettner, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #8992 Kirby Fong, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #7209 Becky Fox Matthews, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #7208 Becky Fox Matthews, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #1197 Kirby Fong, USAAvivaAviva, 1 W-W, Leone Y. Low, United States, 2002
Photo #1196 Kirby Fong, USA