Introduced: 1937 |
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In the introduction year, A.B. Stout described it as:
" The Wolof Daylily has flowers of dark brownish-red-fulvous coloring the stature of the plant is robust (from 3 to 4 feet), and the season of bloom at New York is in July. A more precise designation of the flower coloring according to Ridgway's "Color Standards and Nomenclature" is as follows: - The throat is clear orange near the shade of light cadmium; the sepals are between Morocco red and garnet brown without either a mid-zone or a central stripe; the petals have a midzone near garnet brown or maroon, which is somewhat darker than the sepals; the blade outside this zone is near Morocco red with darker veins; the stripe that extends through each petal tapers and is not sharply defined along its margins. The back of both the sepals and the petals is somewhat tinged with red. The general color effect is noticeably different from that of Theron and Vulcan, which are also of the dark red class, and all of these are much darker than Rajah. The flower is medium full, medium large (from 4 to 5 inches in spread), the petals and sepals are broadly recurving, and the form and color is well maintained during the day. The somewhat robust foliage and the erect, much branched scapes give a good habit of growth and the plant is fully hardy at New York.
This daylily has in its ancestry the species Hemerocallis Thunbergii, H. aurantiaca, and a certain plant of H. fulva from the wild and it was obtained after several generations of selective breeding. The name Wolof refers to a native tribe in Africa and is here applied to suggest that the plant in question is one of the dark-colored type of daylily.
The above is the first mention and description of this particular daylily to appear in print. "
( cited from: Herbertia, 1936, vol. 3, p. 92-95 + 113 )