Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-03-05
2001-02-13
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011773
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Marguerite Daisy plant, botanically known as
Argyranthemum frutescens
and referred to by the cultivar name Midas Gold.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Emerald, Victoria, Australia.
The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the Inventor in 1994 of an unidentified selection of
Argyranthemum frutescens,
as the male or pollen parent, with an unidentified selection of
Argyranthemum frutescens
as the female or seed parent. The cultivar Midas Gold was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Emerald, Victoria, Australia.
Asexual propagation of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings in Emerald, Victoria, Australia, has shown that the unique features of this new Marguerite Daisy are stable and are reproduced true to type in successive propagations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new Marguerite Daisy 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 characteristics have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be basic characteristics of ‘Midas Gold’ which distinguish ‘Midas Gold’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Rounded, outwardly spreading and mounding plant habit; vigorous; freely branching, dense and bushy plants.
2. Very narrow, deeply divided, lacy, fern-like leaves.
3. Freely flowering with numerous inflorescences per plant held beyond the foliage.
4. Large single-type inflorescences.
5. Yellow ray florets and distinct brownish red-tipped immature disc florets which give an “bull's eye” appearance to the inflorescence.
6. High temperature and humidity tolerance.
Plants of the new Marguerite Daisy can be compared to plants of the cultivar Lemon Delight (U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/263,150). In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Emerald, Victoria, Australia, plants of the new Marguerite Daisy are different from plants of the cultivar Lemon Delight in ray and disc floret color and leaf shape.
Campell Bruce R.
Kizilkaya Michelle
Whealy C. A.
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