Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
2001-04-19
2002-09-17
Locker, Howard J. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
active
PP012990
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Yonatalie’.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Salinas, Calif. and Fort Myers, 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 Chrysanthemum originated from a cross made by the Inventor in June, 1995, in Salinas, Calif., of the Chrysanthemum cultivar Shelley, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,993, as the female, or seed, parent with an unnamed Chrysanthemum proprietary seedling selection, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Chrysanthemum was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross grown in a controlled environment in Fort Myers, Fla. in November, 1996. The selection of this plant was based on its desirable inflorescence form, attractive ray floret color and good garden performance.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Fort Myers, Fla. since January, 1997, 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 Yonatalie 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 ‘Yonatalie’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Yonatalie’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright plant habit.
2. Freely branching, dense, full plants.
3. Uniform and freely flowering.
4. Decorative-type inflorescences.
5. Bright yellow-colored ray florets.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum can be compared to plants of the female parent, the cultivar Shelley. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Salinas, Calif., plants of the new Chrysanthemum differ from plants of the cultivar Shelley in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are more mounded and uniform in growth habit than plants of the cultivar Shelley.
2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower more uniformly than plants of the cultivar Shelley.
3. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have larger inflorescences than plants of the cultivar Shelley.
4. Ray florets of plants of the new Chrysanthemum and the cultivar Shelley differ in color.
Compared to plants of the male parent, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differ in ray floret color.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum can be compared to plants of the cultivar Holly, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,992. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Salinas, Calif., plants of the new Chrysanthemum differ from plants of the cultivar Holly in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are more mounded and uniform in growth habit than plants of the cultivar Holly.
2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower more uniformly than plants of the cultivar Holly.
3. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower about one week later than plants of the cultivar Holly.
Locker Howard J.
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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