Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Begonia
Plant Patent
2000-08-31
2002-09-24
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Begonia
Plant Patent
active
PP013002
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinctive cultivar of Begonia plant, botanically known as
Begonia×hiemalis
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Kenna’.
The new cultivar was selected by the inventor, Jens Norgaard Poulsen, in Denmark. The cultivar was discovered by the inventor as a natural sport of the cultivar ‘Jutta’ (unpatented).
The new cultivar was first asexually propagated by the inventor in Aarhus, Denmark in spring 1999. Subsequent asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by means of tip cuttings has demonstrated that the combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for ‘Kenna’ are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of asexual reproduction.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The following characteristics distinguish the new cultivar from other Begonia cultivars commercially known and used in the floriculture industry:
1. Larger area of red color on outer edge of petals as compared to ‘Jutta’; and
2. Inner petal has deeper yellow color than the petals of ‘Jutta’.
‘Kenna’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype of the new cultivar may vary significantly with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity, and daylength without any change in genotype. Of the many commercial cultivars known to the present inventor, the most similar in comparison to ‘Kenna’ is the parental cultivar ‘Jutta’. In comparison to ‘Jutta’, ‘Kenna’ has darker yellow flowers and more red color per petal. ‘Kenna’ has a larger area of red per petal than ‘Jutta’ and ‘Kenna's’ yellow is a richer yellow with orange tones than ‘Jutta’.
Campell Bruce R.
D.S. Cole Growers, Inc.
Foley & Lardner
Grünberg Anne Marie
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