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Daffodil categories

This is a very useful site for understanding daffodil classifications but may be too tempting: https://qualitydaffodils.com/

If this was a really serious show, we'd have a category for all 12 official classifications of daffodil.  But we aren't, so we just differentiate between 4-5 and then have a catch-all category for any of the others. On the day, if you're not sure which yours fit into, just ask us.

Here is a brief description:

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Trumpet

Where the central cup (corona) is as long or longer than a the outer petals (perianth).  Can be single colour or bi-coloured.

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Small Cup

Where the central cup (corona) is less than a third the length of the outer petals (perianth).  These coronas can look just like a small central frill.

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Large Cup

Where the central cup (corona) is more than a third as long and no longer than the outer petals (perianth).

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Double

This relates to the formation of the multiple layers of petals, and they can either be single blooms or multi-headed.

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Others

You can put a wide range of daffodils into this category such as split coronas, triandrus, cyclamineus, tazetta etc.  Anything multi-headed that isn’t a double would fit in here for instance

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