Gloriosus
Classification:
8 W-O[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Unknown

Unknown
Registered:
Yes, before 1883
Special Class:
Chromosomes:
20
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
7 times as seed, 4 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Pre-1850 daffodil; Fls. many per stem; perianth segments very broadly ovate, white, with prominent mucro of a brighter white, spreading, with margins wavy and incurling, overlapping half; corona cup-shaped, shallowly 6-ribbed, light orange, tinged green in tube, mouth straight, wavy, somewhat 3-angled, rim entire. Scented.

“Probably the same as ‘Gloriosa’ 8 W-O” (Barr catalog 1883).

Synonyms:

'Gloria###', 'Gloriosa Superba', 'Tazetta 'Gloriosus''