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Sugar Cups -- Bred by the noted daffodil hybridizer Graham Phillips of
New
Zealand, and named and registered by Bill the Bulb Baron, this is a
remarkably vigorous and healthy plant bred from Grand Monarque x Northland. The
very tall strong stems are excellent for picking, and it is well scented and long
lasting as a cutflower, with its own distinctive scent. Foliage is greener
(less glaucous) than most pure tazettas and resists disease well. Flowers
are a light, soft yellow with a darker yellow cup, in clusters of up to around 19
florets. Blooms about the time of Erlicheer--a little ahead of Avalanche and
Grand Monarque. Definitely has inherited Grand Monarque's suitability for
naturalizing. Though almost certainly a triploid, pollen is very
abundant and of good fertility for hybridizing.
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