Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-12-31
2001-10-23
Locker, Howard J. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012158
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as
Dendranthema grandiflora
and hereafter referred to by the cultivar name Empire Pizzazz.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in New Hartford, N.Y. The objective of the breeding program is to create new garden-type Chrysanthemum cultivars having inflorescences with desirable inflorescence forms, attractive floret colors and good garden performance.
The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the Inventor in 1996, of the
Dendranthema grandiflora
cultivar Empire Diablo, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,586, as the female, or seed parent, with a proprietary seedling selection identified as H87-23 as the male, or pollen parent, described as a dark red decorative-type garden Chrysanthemum.
The cultivar Empire Pizzazz was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in New Hartford, N.Y., in September, 1997. The selection of this plant was based on its desirable inflorescence form, attractive ray floret color and excellent garden performance.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in New Hartford has shown that the unique features of this new Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cultivar Empire Pizzazz 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 Pizzazz’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Empire Pizzazz’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Outwardly spreading and freely branching habit.
2. Decorative-type inflorescences that are about 4.5 to 5.5 cm in diameter.
3. Numerous attractive bright red ray florets; color resists fading with development.
4. Compact cushion habit.
5. Numerous inflorescences per plant.
6. Early flowering response.
7. Excellent garden performance.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower slightly later than plants of the female parent, the cultivar Empire Diablo, under artificially-manipulated daylengths. In addition, plants of the new Chrysanthemum have lighter red ray florets and slightly smaller inflorescences than plants of the cultivar Empire Diablo.
REFERENCES:
patent: P.P. 6938 (1989-07-01), VandenBerg
Locker Howard J.
Whealy C. A.
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