I never knew what caused the diamond dusting effect! Sounds very logical!

I think I need more yellows so that I can put them in salads and desserts.

I am with Margaret... now we can lick them and get an additional boost while working in the garden!!!

I love yellows and I think I need a few more too. Out of 250 daylilies I think I only have about 10 or 12 at most.

A new one for me is SPICED CUSTARD (Maryott 2010), and it has diamond dusting. I really loved it on sight and the flower stayed just like this all day long. Maryott's has about 200 daylilies on sale right now, and this is one of them -- FANTASTIC!

Very pretty, Betty.

Lovely! Thanks.

BEAUTIFUL!!!

Now if we could get a chocolate daylily that tasted good.

This is one that I rescued from a garden that was being taken out. Wish I knew the name.
That diamond dusting sure is hard to capture in a photo ~ bravo to those that can do it well!

Thanks Moby! Beautiful daylily!

Very nice - I have a few that look similar in my garden...

Hall's Pink and Fairy Tale Pink and Grecian Key and Yasmin:

Beautiful!

Carolyn Mann is the one I noticed the dusting on, and I don't see that listed as a feature in the catalogues that sell it.

Thanks -- I dont have Carolyn Mann -- but it is fun to see all the one's I have that are possibilites for someone else... Very Nice!

I noticed—in the American Daylily Society cultivar data base (advanced search w/extra early season)—that a lot of the cultivars in which Rose F. Kennedy daylily was a parent, cultivar descriptions of color included "diamond dusting", even to the point of claiming 100% diamond dusting for some cultivars. For example:

ANGEL'S VIEW height 32 in.(81 cm), bloom 9 in.(22 cm), season EE, Rebloom, Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid, 30 buds, 5 branches, Celery green with one hundred percent diamond dusting, very thick substance, and soft pink petal ends.. (Frog`s Eye × Tet. Rose F. Kennedy)
This led to question of what "very thick substance" meant.

Substance is related to the thickness of the petals, the petals have a stiff feel about them, sometimes described as a plastic like feel.
The blooms with good substance stand up to the rain well, but if you try to open up a bloom with "very thick substance" they are very easy to crack across the petal.