Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
2001-04-19
2002-11-12
Locker, Howard J. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
active
PP013221
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 ‘Spicy Yocheryl’.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in 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 is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of a proprietary induced mutation that originated by exposing unrooted cuttings of the Chrysanthemum cultivar Yocheryl, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,846, to X-ray radiation in July, 1998, in Fort Myers, Fla. The new Chrysanthemum was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant within a population of flowering plants of the irradiated selection in January, 1999 in a controlled environment in Fort Myers, Fla. 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 March, 1999, 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 Spicy Yocheryl 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 ‘Spicy Yocheryl’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Spicy Yocheryl’ 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. Dark bronze-colored ray florets.
Compared to plants of the cultivar Yocheryl, plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower slightly earlier and differ in ray floret color.
REFERENCES:
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Broetjes, et al., 1980, “A Mutant of a Mutant of a . . . Irradiation of Progressive Radiation Induced Mutants in a Mutation Breeding Programme withChrysanthimum morifolium”, Euphytica, 29:525-530.*
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Broetjes, et al., 1978, “Application of Mutation Breeding Methods in the Improvement of Vegetatively Propagated Crops”, Elsevier Sci. Pub. Co., New York, pp. 162-175.*
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Chan, 1966, “Chrysanthemum and Rose Mutations Induced by X-rays” Am. Soc. Hort. Sci. Proc., pp. 613-620.*
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Dowrick, et al., 1966, “The Induction of Mutations in Chrysanthemum Using X- and Gamma Radiation”, Euphytica, 15:204-210.
Locker Howard J.
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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