Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2002-12-26
2003-12-02
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP014339
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of the genus and species of plant claimed:
Argyranthemum frutescens.
Variety denomination: ‘Balargrite’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct Argyranthemum plant, botanically known as
Argyranthemum frutescens,
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Balargrite’.
The new cultivar is the result of a planned breeding program with the objective being the development of Argyranthemum plants that are freely branching, freely flowering and have a compact, upright growth habit.
The new cultivar is the result of open pollination, with the female parent being the commercially available variety ‘Sugar Baby’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,298), characterized by white ray florets and yellow disc florets. The new cultivar was discovered by the inventor during February 2000, in a controlled environment at Arroyo Grande, Calif.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar has been carried out at Arroyo Grande, Calif. and West Chicago, Ill. by terminal tip cuttings and has demonstrated that the characteristics of the new cultivar as herein described are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It was found that the cultivar of the present invention:
(a) exhibits white ray florets and yellow disc florets,
(b) forms foliage of a medium green color, and
(c) exhibits a compact upright growth habit.
The new cultivar of the present invention can be compared to its female parent, ‘Sugar Baby’. In side-by-side comparisons, plants of the new cultivar are more floriferous and have larger flowers with slightly longer and narrower ray florets.
Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural Company
Para Annette H.
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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