Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-01-04
2001-06-05
Locker, Howard J. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011908
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as
Dendranthema grandiflora
and referred to by the cultivar name Empire Sweet Dreams.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in New York Mills, N.Y. The objective of the breeding program is to create new garden-type Chrysanthemum cultivars having inflorescences with desirable inflorescence forms and floret colors and good garden performance.
The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the Inventor in October, 1992 of two unidentified proprietary seedling selections.
The cultivar Empire Sweet Dreams was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in New York Mills, N.Y., in August, 1993. The selection of this plant was based on its desirable inflorescence form and ray floret color.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in New York Mills, N.Y., has shown that the unique features of this new Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cultivar Empire Sweet Dreams has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, daylength and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Empire Sweet Dreams’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Empire Sweet Dreams’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Uniformly mounded plant habit.
2. Glossy dark green leaves.
3. Large daisy-type inflorescences that are about 7 cm in diameter.
4. Attractive coral pink ray florets and bright yellow disc florets.
5. Numerous inflorescences per plant.
The new Chrysanthemum is similar to the Chrysanthemum cultivar Sandy (disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,531). However in side-by-side comparisons under commercial practice, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differed from plants of the cultivar Sandy in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are shorter than plants of the cultivar Sandy.
2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have larger inflorescences than plants of the cultivar Sandy.
3. Ray florets of plants of the new Chrysanthemum are coral pink in color whereas ray florets of plants of the cultivar Sandy are golden bronze in color.
REFERENCES:
UPOV-ROM, 2000/02, Plant Variety Database, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software, citation for ‘Empire Sweet Dreams’.
Locker Howard J.
Whealy C. A.
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