Introduced: 1956 |
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In the introduction year, A.B. Stout described it as:
" All of these clones have foliage that is dormant or semi-dormant, and all have proved fully hardy.
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As indicated in figure 7, the 'Statuesque' daylily has a distinctive stature. It combines upstanding foliage with tall much-branched scapes that provide an abundance of flowers. The foliage is bending at the tips at a level of about three feet, above which the flowering portions of the scape arise for at least two feet. The flowers are somewhat fragrant, full, and trumpet-shaped with the margin of the petals somewhat crinkled. They hold their form and their uniformly empire-yellow color in the hottest weather throughout daylight and until after dark. The flowers are nearly three inches in spread and the climax of blooming is in mid-July. The 'Statuesque' daylily is a complex hybrid derived by crossing a member of the tall night-blooming Hemerocallis altissima with lower-growing daylilies that were diurnal in their flowering. "
( cited from: The Garden Journal, 1956, vol. 6, p. 9-11 )