Data specific to Daylilies (Edit)
AHS link: AHS Daylily Cultivar Info
Hybridizer: Elliott
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1978
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 26 inches
Bloom size: 4.5 inches
Bloom time: Midseason
Plant Traits: Extended Bloom
Bloom Traits: Bicolor or Reverse Bicolor
Eye or Band
Edged
Bloom Form: Single
Color description: lilac purple and cream edged lilac bicolor with deep lilac eyezone and green yellow throat

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Diploid
Parentage: Dorothy Lambert x Hope Diamond
Child plants: 5 child plants

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Location: Wiesbaden - Germany
Date: 2014-05-30
Location: my garden-zone 6b
Date: 2023-07-09
Location: my garden
Date: July 8, 2022

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Tutankhamen
Location: Baltimore, Ohio
Date: 2022-07-09
Location: central New Hampshire
Date: 2019-07-22
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2015-10-14
Location: Mamabear's Gardens in Lower Michigan
Date: 2010-08-04
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Location: North Carolina
Date: 2022-05-31
Tutankhamun Daylily
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2017-05-12
Location: Mason, New Hampshire
Date: 2019-07-14
photo credit: Robert Duval
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Date: May22,2021
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Date: 2022-07-09
Location: Koeln,  Germany
Location: my garden
Date: June 19, 2022
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Date: July 15,2020
1st blooms
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Location: Mason, New Hampshire
Date: 2016-07-09
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2012-05-29
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2012-07-03
Location: Mason, New Hampshire
Date: 2018-07-02
photo credit: Robert Duval
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Location: central New Hampshire
Date: 2019-07-20
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Location: Auburn, AL
Date: 2014
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Location: Mason, New Hampshire
Date: 2018-07-16
photo credit: Robert Duval

Date: 4000-10-13

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Location: Mason, New Hampshire
Date: 2019-07-23
photo credit: Robert Duval

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Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2012-07-03
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2012-05-12

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Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2012-05-22
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2012-05-25 
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Comments:
  • Posted by robertduval14 (Milford, New Hampshire - Zone 5b) on Jul 9, 2019 5:20 PM concerning plant:
    Low bud counts hinder this otherwise excellent cultivar. Great pop of color in the flower beds, flowers held well above foliage and throws out poly blooms quite often.
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