Shasta Daisy

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The ruffled variety of the Shasta Daisy, the "Crazy Daisy," was cultivated in Germany. This was taken in our backyard, June 2005, with my old Olympus digital.

The Shasta Daisy is the Shasta County flower. Shasta Daisy is also the name of the Shasta High School yearbook - and has been since the 1920's.

From the City of Santa Rosa website (Santa Rosa was the home of Luther Burbank):

How Luther Burbank Made the Shasta Daisy

Luther Burbank had a great fondness for the wild oxeye daisies that grew under the elm tree in front of his family home. Many years later, the young plant-breeder was inspired to develop these wildflowers for use as garden flowers, and envisioned an ideal daisy: it would have very large pure white flowers, long blooming period, and be good both as a cut flower and garden plant. In order to achieve his goals he used four different plants, creating a quadruple hybrid.

He started with the oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) and cross-pollinated it with the English field daisy (Leucanthemum maximum) which had larger flowers than the oxeye daisy. The best of these hybrids were then dusted with pollen from the Portuguese field daisy (Leucanthemum lacustre) and their seedlings were bred selectively for six years.

These bloomed nicely, but Burbank wasn't satisfied yet. He wanted whiter, brighter flowers. He took the most promising of these triple hybrids and pollinated them with the Japanese field daisy (Nipponanthemum nipponicum), a species with small, pure white flowers. Finally, he got the beautiful large white daisy that he was hoping for. He named it for the lovely glistening Mount Shasta in Northern California. The Shasta daisy hybrids were introduced in 1901 after 17 years in development.

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	Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) says: Splendid photo of beautiful flowers. Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	grco61 says: They are super-nice !!! And, thanks for the education. from your photostream. Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	mozart&me says: Beautiful! Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	Quizical Cat says: Oh, I love this variety of Shasta Daisies. I've never seen them before...very beautiful! The cultivation history you've provided on this flower is fascinating. Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	sierrablu says: sweet! Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	magstultz says: wow - thanks for that info - i love these flowers and this is a gorgeous shot! Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	Apple Crisp says: Thanks, everyone! :) Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	Ken Blackwell says: Gorgeous flowers....great history too. Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	atelier79033 says: one of the nicest simple flower shots I've seen in a while; very pretty! Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	Apple Crisp says: ~ Ken, thanks, glad you enjoyed.... :) ~ Thank you, Ed! :) Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
	pshaha says: Nice and bright. I like it. Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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