Lipizzaner compared to the whitest daylilies (Group 2).

Lipizzaner compared to Gentle Shepherd in my hand,

Lipizzaner Stallions

Originated by Manfred Heinrich 2021, Dip, 25" tall, 5" diameter, Midseason, dormant, 4 branches, 23 buds. Very white daylily. I grow about 75 white daylilies and, having seriously compared them all, this is the whitest of all of them. Fertile both ways. This is an important plant for anyone who wants to breed white daylilies, or has been waiting for a very white daylily. Parentage is unknown.

A friend sent me this plant years ago because she believed it was whiter than everything else including Gentle Shepherd. I am in a group of daylily enthusiasts who have evaluated more than 250 white daylilies over 10 years so this is a claim I hear often, and it is a claim that is mostly unfulfilled. As I watched Lipizzaner bloom, however, I observed that it is as white as the other few daylilies that we have classified as Group 2. So I was convinced that we should register this cultivar because it should be used in breeding additional white daylilies. Manfred Heinrich is the person who first purchased this unidentified white seedling in Austria and then on his behalf I registered the daylily as Lipizzaner Stallions.