Mammoth™ 'Twilight Pink Daisy' garden chrysanthemum

Mammoth (TM) 'Twilight Pink Daisy' (U.S. Plant Patent 14,455; Canadian Plant Breeders' Rights Certificate No. 4192) is an interspecific garden chrysanthemum cultivar, Chrysanthemum xhybridum Anderson (= Dendranthema xhybrida Anderson) with common names of hardy mum, chrysanthemum, and garden mum. It is a new and distinct form of shrub-type garden mums in the Mammoth (TM) series with rosy-pink ray florets, a dark "eye" color in the center of the disc florets, frost-tolerant flower petals, and self-pinching growth. This cultivar is a butterfly attractant in the garden. Mammoth (TM) 'Twilight Pink Daisy' is a winter-hardy herbaceous perennial in USDA Z3b-Z9 (Southeast)/Zone 10 (West) with its cushion growth form displaying extreme hybrid vigor, increasing in plant height from 0.46 m in its first year to a shrub of 0.76 to 1.22 m in the second year and thereafter with greater than 3000 leaves/plant. Flowering is prolific, covering the entire plant at full flowering with as many as greater than 3500 flowers in the second year. Chemical abbreviations: ethanol (EtOH), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA).