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Date last updated:
11 April 2006

Fantasy Chrysanthemums - Quills

British Standard
Quills (Section 10b)

As with spiders, florets are tubular, and either open at the tip or closed and pointed, but in the case of quills florets must be straight to the tip and free of hooks or coils. Blooms should be fully double, with a button or zone of young florets still to unfurl. The florets are generally less delicate and shorter than those of most spiders, and this, coupled to the straight florets, makes for globular and more symmetrical blooms. Florets should be fresh to the tips.

Common Faults:
Disc in evidence; elongated centres; gaps in the floret lay; florets lacking in freshness; floret tips coiled and hooked.

Royal NSW Horticultural Society
(b) QUILLS

Florets are tubular, and either open or flared at the tip or closed and pointed, straight to the tip, free of hooks or coils, evenly spaced with good depth and a fully double centre consisting of young florets still to unfurl.

Common Faults:
Open or hard centres, malformed or unevenly spaced florets, feathered, broken or tangled florets. Poor colour, staleness and drooping. Insect or other damage.

U.S.A. Standard
Quill (Division C) [Class 10J

Ray florets are elongated, tubular and straight. They are not coiled, but may reflex slightly. Some may be closed to the tip and pointed, others are open and spatulate. An obverse colour may be presented in the spooning tips. The bloom is fully double with no disc apparent.

Size range: A, over 6 inches (15 cm); B, 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm).

The quill is quite popular in Australia and to a lesser extent in Britain but not so in Japan.

The florets in the quill are straight tubes, either pointed at the tip (enclosed tip) or open like a spoon.

Normally a quill is not as large as a spider.

Enclosed Tips Something like the skirt florets of the hooked variety bloom, i.e. straight throughout the length of the floret coming to an enclosed point at the tip.
Spooned Tips These are rounded along the shaft of the floret but the tip opens out to a spoon-like shape but there is no hook or curl.

All other types are the same as in the other fantasy varieties.

Golden Bendigo

These are the fantasies as they are classified for exhibition purposes. As we all know categorizing can be difficult as each cultivar can grow quite differently from grower to grower.

Basically a flower is a thing of beauty and the ultimate of this pleasure to the eye is what we are continually striving to achieve.

This article is the opinion of the writer. Also I hope it gives you a bit more insight into a fantasy so that you can grow and appreciate its beauty.