Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2003-05-13
2004-04-20
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP014719
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Calibrachoa sp.
cultivar Illumination Light Pink.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant, botanically known as
Calibrachoa sp.
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Illumination Light Pink’.
The new Calibrachoa is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventors in Saitama-ken, Japan. The objective of the breeding program is to create new Calibrachoa cultivars that have stronger growth habit and attractive flower coloration.
The new Calibrachoa originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventors in August, 1998, in Saitama-ken, Japan, of two unnamed proprietary Calibrachoa seedling selections, not patented. The new Calibrachoa was discovered and selected by the Inventors as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination grown in a controlled environment in Saitama-ken, Japan, in May, 2000. The selection of this plant was based on its strong plant growth habit and attractive flower coloration.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Saitama-ken, Japan, since May, 2000, has shown that the unique features of this new Calibrachoa are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Illumination Light Pink have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature and light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Illumination Light Pink’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Illumination Light Pink’ as a new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa:
1. Cascading and prostrate plant habit.
2. Freely branching growth habit.
3. Freely flowering habit.
4. Light purple-colored flowers with pale yellow-colored throat with a dark violet-colored band at the top of the throat.
5. Good weather tolerance; tolerant to wind, rain, and low and high temperatures.
Plants of the new Calibrachoa can be compared to plants of the female parent, an unnamed proprietary Calibrachoa selection. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventors in Saitama-ken, Japan, plants of the new Calibrachoa differed from plants of the female parent selection in the flowering characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Calibrachoa were more prostrate in plant habit than plants of the female parent selection.
2. Plants of the new Calibrachoa had larger flowers than plants of the female parent selection.
3. Plants of the new Calibrachoa and the female parent selection differed in flower coloration as plants of the female parent selection had white-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Calibrachoa can also be compared to plants of the male parent, an unnamed proprietary Calibrachoa selection. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventors in Saitama-ken, Japan, plants of the new Calibrachoa differed from plants of the male parent selection in the flowering characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Calibrachoa had larger flowers than plants of the male parent selection.
2. Plants of the new Calibrachoa and the male parent selection differed in flower coloration as plants of the male parent selection had rose pink-colored flowers.
Plants of the new cultivar can also be compared to plants of the cultivar Illumination Rose 2, disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/094,319. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Saitama-ken, Japan, plants of the new Calibrachoa differed from plants of the cultivar Illumination Rose 2 in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Calibrachoa were not as prostrate in plant habit as plants of the cultivar Illumination Rose 2.
2. Plants of the new Calibrachoa flowered later than plants of the cultivar Illumination Rose 2.
3. Plants of the new Calibrachoa had slightly larger flowers than plants of the cultivar Illumination Rose 2.
4. Plants of the new Calibrachoa and the cultivar Illumination Rose 2 differed in corolla coloration.
Akiyama Yasuo
Takeshita Daigaku
Watanabe Saori
Yoma Ayumi
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