Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Helichrysum
Plant Patent
2002-03-27
2003-07-01
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Helichrysum
Plant Patent
active
PP013923
ABSTRACT:
LATIN NAME OF THE GENUS AND SPECIES OF PLANT CLAIMED
Bracteantha bracteata.
VARIETY DENOMINATION
‘Rose Pink’.
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 ‘Rose Pink’.
The new cultivar was developed by the inventor through a controlled breeding program at New South Wales, Australia in March, 1998.
The female (seed) parent of ‘Rose Pink’ was the proprietary Bracteantha selection designated B98-12A5 (not patented in the United States), which exhibits yellow involucral bract color. The male (pollen) parent of ‘Rose Pink’ was the proprietary Bracteantha selection designated 26A (not patented in the United States) which exhibits yellow involucral bract color. ‘Rose Pink’ was selected as one of the flowering progeny of the above stated 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 dark pink 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 ‘Antique Shades’ (disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/819,272) it is found that the new cultivar has smaller leaves and has flowers of darker pink.
REFERENCES:
patent: PP10742 (1998-12-01), Bautista
Campell Bruce R.
McCormick Susan B.
Oasis Horticulture Pty. Ltd.
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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