Dahlias come in various sizes, colors, and shapes, adding unparalleled beauty to any flower garden. However, when Kelsey Hall, owner of Cattle & Cut Flowers, came across a unique dahlia form growing on her flower farm in Enumclaw, Washington she was in disbelief. After testing and confirming the rare flower is disease-free, Hall has decided to breed her discovery, which she has fittingly named “Daffodahlia,”
Hall discovered the new dahlia form at the beginning of September and couldn’t believe what she stumbled upon. “I honestly thought my eyes were playing a trick on me,” she told Martha Stewart. “Then every time another bloom opened like that I was just in awe and still can’t believe they are growing that way.”
The rare flower is a mutation of a ball form dahlia. “Instead of the petals rolling back they are fusing together to forming a ring to create a daffodil looking dahlia,” Hall says. To learn more about the mutation, Hall sent the Daffodahlia to Washington State University to have it tested. To Hall’s delight, the tests revealed the unique flower form has no known diseases or viruses…