Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
2000-01-06
2001-11-27
Locker, Howard J. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012223
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 Yomelissa.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Salinas, Calif. and Alva, Fla. 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 Salinas, Calif., in December, 1995, of the
Dendranthema grandiflora
cultivar Debonair, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,324, as the female, or seed, parent with an unidentified proprietary seedling selection as the male, or pollen, parent.
The cultivar Yomelissa was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Alva, Fla. in November, 1996. 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 Alva, Fla. 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 Yomelissa 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 ‘Yomelissa’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Yomelissa’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Uniformly mounded plant habit.
2. Freely branching, dense, full plants.
3. Uniform flowering.
4. Decorative-type inflorescences that are about 5.6 cm in diameter.
5. Attractive dark lavender ray florets.
6. Numerous inflorescences per plant.
7. Excellent garden performance.
The new Chrysanthemum is similar to the parent cultivar, Debonair. However in side-by-side comparisons under commercial practice, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differ from plants of the cultivar Debonair in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are more compact and more uniformly mounded than plants of the cultivar Debonair.
2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower about 10 days later than plants of the cultivar Debonair under natural season photoperiodic conditions.
3. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have larger inflorescences and are more freely and uniformly flowering than plants of the cultivar Debonair.
4. Ray florets of plants of the new Chrysanthemum are broader and slightly darker in color than ray florets of the cultivar Debonair.
REFERENCES:
patent: P.P. 8572 (1994-02-01), Wain
patent: P.P. 8782 (1994-06-01), Fuess
patent: P.P. 8898 (1994-09-01), Glicenstein
patent: P.P. 8979 (1994-11-01), Glicenstein
patent: P.P. 10901 (1999-05-01), VandenBerg
Locker Howard J.
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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