Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1998-12-08
2002-04-16
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012554
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of agapanthus, botanically known as
Agapanthus praecox
ssp.
orientalis,
and referred to by the cultivar name ‘Snowstorm’.
DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION
The new cultivar was discovered by the inventor in Emerald, Victoria, Australia and resulted from the open pollination of
Agapanthus praecox
ssp.
orientalis
‘albus’ in Autumn 1982. The new cultivar was selected from the progeny by the inventor in Emerald, Victoria, Australia with the selection being primarily due to the following criteria: uniform plant height, flower number, size of open flower head, flower color and evergreen characteristics.
Following the open pollination of agapanthus ‘albus’ (unpatented) referred to above, seed was collected and germinated following typical nursery conditions, and the individual plants planted into assessment beds in the nursery located in Emerald, Victoria, Australia. The plants were assessed in-ground, when they were divided for container-growing trials and uniformity assessment. Using the above selection criteria, asexual propagation of the plant by division was performed vegetatively through many generations.
The new cultivar ‘Snowstorm’ is evergreen, dwarf, white-flowered and heavy flowering, and is primarily distinguished from its seed parent and from other cultivars of the genus such as Agapanthus ‘Snowdrops’ (unpatented) and Agapanthus ‘Snowball’ (unpatented), which are the closest comparators known to the inventor, by the high number of florets per inflorescence and by being reliably evergreen. In addition, the new cultivar has dense foliage compared to the medium density foliage of the other agapanthus cultivars, the leaves of the new cultivar being very short and narrow compared with other cultivars.
REFERENCES:
Copy of Australian Plant Breeder's Rights Application form (Feb. 2, 1989).
Copy of New Zealand Plant Variety Rights Application form (Jun. 14, 1995).
Copy of New Zealand Grant Certificate (Mar. 25, 1997).
UPOV-ROM GTITM Computer Database 1999/02, GTI JOUVE Retrieval Software, citations for ‘Snowstorm’, May 1999.*
Huxley, A., Griffiths, M., and Levy, M. The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. vol. 1 p. 80, Jul. 1992.
Campell Bruce R.
Foley & Lardner
Kizilkaya Michelle
Wilken Stephen J. M.
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