Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
2002-03-15
2003-02-18
Bell, Kent L. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP013570
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Pelargonium peltatum
cultivar ‘Balcoldaav’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant, botanically known as
Pelargonium peltatum,
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Balcoldaav’.
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 freely flowering Geraniums with attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Geranium originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor of a proprietary
Pelargonium peltatum
selection identified as code number BFP-1441, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary
Pelargonium peltatum
selection identified as code number 8936-5, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar ‘Balcoldaav’ was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny from this cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Arroyo Grande, Calif., in 1999.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Arroyo Grande, Calif., since June, 2000, 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 ‘Balcoldaav’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balcoldaav’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Cascading and mounded growth habit.
2. Freely basal branching habit.
3. Dark green-colored leaves with darker zonation pattern.
4. Light purple-colored double flowers.
Plants of the new Geranium differ from plants of the parent selections primarily in flower color.
The new Geranium can be compared to the cultivar ‘Butterfly’, not patented. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Arroyo Grande, Calif., plants of the new Geranium differed from plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Geranium were more freely flowering than plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’.
2. Plants of the new Geranium had larger umbels than plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’.
3. Umbels of plants of the new Geranium had fewer flowers than umbels of plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’.
4. Plants of the new Geranium had longer peduncles than plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’.
5. Plants of the new Geranium had shorter pedicels than plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’.
Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural Company
Bell Kent L.
Whealy C. A.
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