Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-03-17
2001-01-30
Locker, Howard J. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011758
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as
Dendranthema grandiflora
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Yofort Wayne.
The new Chrysanthemum is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Salinas, Calif. The objective of the breeding program is to create new pot-type Chrysanthemum cultivars having desirable inflorescence forms and floret colors and good post-production longevity.
The new Chrysanthemum originated from a cross made by the Inventor in July, 1993, in Salinas, Calif., of a proprietary Chrysanthemum seedling selection identified as code number YB-6083 as the female, or seed, parent, with a proprietary Chrysanthemum seedling selection identified as code number YB-0864 as the male, or pollen, parent.
The new Chrysanthemum was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Fort Myers, Fla., in February, 1994. The selection of this plant was based on its desirable inflorescence form and floret colors and good post-production longevity.
Asexual reproduction of the new Chrysanthemum by terminal cuttings harvested in a controlled environment in Salinas, Calif., 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 Yofort Wayne 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 ‘Yofort Wayne’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Yofort Wayne’ as a new and distinct Chrysanthemum:
1. Upright, outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit, very full and dense plants.
3. Uniform and early flowering.
4. Floriferous, numerous daisy-type inflorescences that are about 5.75 cm in diameter.
5. Attractive purple and white bi-colored ray florets with bright yellow disc florets.
6. Good postproduction longevity with inflorescences and leaves maintaining good substance and color for about two to three weeks in an interior environment.
The new Chrysanthemum can be compared to the Chrysanthemum cultivar Tijuana, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,083. However in side-by-side comparisons in Salinas, Calif., and Leamington, Ontario, Canada, under commercial practice, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differ from plants of the cultivar Tijuana in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are shorter and less vigorous than plants of the cultivar Tijuana.
2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have smaller leaves than plants of the cultivar Tijuana.
3. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower about two or four days earlier than plants of the cultivar Tijuana.
4. Inflorescences of the new Chrysanthemum are smaller than inflorescences of the cultivar Tijuana.
5. Ray florets of the new Chrysanthemum are less numerous and smaller than ray florets of the cultivar Tijuana.
6. Disc florets of the new Chrysanthemum mature faster, but produce less pollen than disc florets of the cultivar Tijuana.
Locker Howard J.
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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