Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Helichrysum
Plant Patent
2002-03-27
2003-06-24
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Helichrysum
Plant Patent
active
PP013905
ABSTRACT:
LATIN NAME OF THE GENUS AND SPECIES OF PLANT CLAIMED
Bracteantha bracteata.
VARIETY DEMONINATIION
‘Copper’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct Bracteantha plant, botanically known as
Bracteantha bracteata
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Copper’.
The new cultivar was developed by the inventor in a controlled breeding program at New South Wales, Australia in March, 1998.
The female (seed) parent of ‘Copper’ was the cultivar ‘Nullabor Flame’ (not patented in the United States), characterized by its tall growth habit and numerous red bracts. The male (pollen) parent of ‘Copper’ was the cultivar ‘Diamond Head’ (not patented in the United States), characterized by its semi-prostrate habit and low number of yellow bracts. ‘Copper’ was selected as one of the flowering progeny of the above cross on Aug. 1, 1998.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings, at West Chicago, Ill., 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 yellow-orange involucral bracts and yellow disc florets;
(b) forms dark green foliage;
(c) exhibits a good basal branching character; and
(d) exhibits an upright mounded growth habit.
When the new cultivar of the present invention is compared to ‘Cream’ (disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/819,340) it is found that the new cultivar has smaller leaves and smaller flowers of a darker orange color. The new cultivar can also be compared to its sibling, ‘Yellow’ (disclosed in a concurrent patent application). In side-by-side comparisons, the involucral bracts of the new cultivar are more orange than the bracts of ‘Yellow’.
Campell Bruce R.
McCormick Susan B.
Oasis Horticulture Pty. Ltd.
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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