Description
‘Queen Mab’
2Y-YYO
[Incomparabilis Sulphureus 2b]
(Leeds, E., pre-1877)
If your dream daffodil is a small, neat-cupped daffodil with slender, spreading and twisting primrose-yellow perianth segments bleaching white, and an almost straight, lightly pleated corona with the faintest tinge of amber at the lightly notched margin, then the “fairies’ midwife” has indeed fulfilled it. Early flowering and of below average height, but larger than “an agate stone” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet). According to Barr’s 1884 Conference List, this “florists’” name replaced the polynomial Incomparabilis Sulphureus marginatus minor. The taller ‘Astraea’ “absorbed” this enchanting rival (a dubious policy), but our stock seems to be the pure, smaller original.
