Plants – Shrub or vine
Plant Patent
2004-03-20
2004-12-14
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Plant Patent
active
PP015433
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Brighamia insignis
cultivar Kirsten.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Brighamia
plant, botanically known as
Brighamia insignis,
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Kirsten’.
The new
Brighamia
is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Schipluiden, The Netherlands. The objective of the program is to create and develop new compact and uniform
Brighamia
cultivars.
The new
Brighamia
originated from a cross-pollination of two unidentified selections of
Brighamia insignis,
not patented, in 1996. The new
Brighamia
was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Voorhout, The Netherlands in June, 1999.
Asexual propagation of the new cultivar by meristem culture in Voorhout, The Netherlands since July, 2000, has shown that the unique features of this new
Brighamia
plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Kirsten have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature and/or light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Kirsten’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Kirsten’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright, uniform and compact growth habit.
2. Short thick stem.
3. Light green-colored leaves.
4. Numerous yellow-colored flowers.
Plants of the new
Brighamia
differ from plants of the parent selections and other selections of
Brighamia
known to the Inventor in growth habit cultivar as plants of the new
Brighamia
are more compact and grow and flower more uniformly.
Bell Kent
Plant Planet, B.V.
Whealy C. A.
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