Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Helichrysum
Plant Patent
2002-11-01
2003-12-23
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Helichrysum
Plant Patent
active
PP014411
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of the genus and species of plant claimed:
Bracteantha bracteata.
Variety denomiantion: ‘Sun Yellow Bon Bon’.
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 ‘Sun Yellow Bon Bon’.
The new cultivar was developed by the inventor through a controlled breeding program at Kitakoma-gun, Yamanashi, Japan in February 1995.
The female (seed) parent of ‘Sun Yellow Bon Bon’ was the an unnamed wild creeping type with yellow flowers, dark green leaves and compact, creeping habit (not patented in the United States). The male (pollen) parent of ‘Sun Yellow Bon Bon’ was the seedling selection No. 1109 (not patented in the United States) which exhibits pink flowers, light green foliage, compact and upright habit. ‘Sun Yellow Bon Bon’ was selected as one of the flowering progeny of the above cross.
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 involcural 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 Dreamtime ‘Cream’ (disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/819,340) it is found that the new cultivar is more vigorous and has smaller flowers of a darker yellow color.
Campell Bruce R.
Miyoshi & Company Ltd.
Para Annette H.
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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