Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-02-22
2001-02-06
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011765
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant, botanically known as
Pelargonium peltatum×P. hortorum
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Balgalsofi.
The new Geranium 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 cultivars with the combination of the spreading/trailing growth habit of Ivy Geraniums with the large umbels of Zonal Geraniums, freely-branching growth habit, medium green-colored foliage, uniform flowering, and interesting flower and foliage colors.
The new Geranium originated from an interspecific cross made by the Inventor of the proprietary
Pelargonium×hortorum
selection BFP-1441 as the male, or pollen parent, with the proprietary
Pelargonium peltatum
selection BFP-1114 as the female, or seed parent. The cultivar Balgalsofi was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Arroyo Grande, Calif., in January, 1996.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Arroyo Grande, Calif., has shown that the unique features of this new Geranium 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 ‘Balgalsofi’. There characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balgalsofi’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Numerous single light pink-colored flowers with reddish purple central splotches and spots; very freely flowering.
2. Upright, mounding and spreading growth habit.
3. Basal branching and vigorous.
4. Dark green leaves.
The new Geranium can be compared to the cultivar, Americana White Splash, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,317. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Arroyo Grande, Calif., plants of the new Geranium differ from plants of the cultivar Americana White Splash in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Geranium have more leaves than plants of the cultivar Americana White Splash.
2. Plants of the new Geranium have more flowers per umbel than plants of the cultivar Americana White Splash.
3. Plants of the new Geranium have reddish purple splotches/ spots on the flower petals that are darker in color and larger than the petal spots of plants of the cultivar Americana White Splash.
A detailed comparison of plants of the cultivar Balgalsofi and the cultivar Americana White Splash, as grown side by side, appears in Chart A at the end of the specification.
Baker Wendy A
Ball Floraplant a division of Ball Horticultural Co.
Campell Bruce R.
Whealy C. A.
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