Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-12-31
2001-06-12
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011928
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Double Petunia plant, botanically known as
Petunia×hybrida,
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Balrufpurp.
The new Petunia is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Arroyo Grande, Calif. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new Petunia cultivars with large double flowers; freely-branching vigorous growth habit; and attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Petunia originated by exposing plants of an unidentified selection of
Petunia×hybrida
described as a double white-flowered selection to the mutagen colchicine. Following the treatment, cuttings were harvested from the treated plants and the cuttings were rooted and flowered. The new Petunia was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant within this population in Arroyo Grande in 1998. The selection of this plant was based on its attractive flower color and semi-double flower form.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Arroyo Grande has shown that the unique features of this new Petunia are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Balrufpurp’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balrufpurp’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Large red purple double flowers.
2. Mounded and eventually semi-trailing plant habit.
3. Freely basal-branching habit.
The new Petunia can be compared to the cultivar, Cascadia Double Pink, not patented. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Arroyo Grande, plants of the new Petunia differ from plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Petunia are taller than plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
2. Plants of the new Petunia have longer and more pubescent leaves than plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
3. Plants of the new Petunia have larger flowers than plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
4. Flower color of plants of the new Petunia is much darker than flower color of plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
5. Plants of the new Petunia have longer peduncles than plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
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Campell Bruce R.
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