Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Carnation or pink
Plant Patent
1999-08-23
2002-07-02
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Carnation or pink
Plant Patent
active
PP012742
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Carnation plant, botanically known as
Dianthus caryophyllus
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Sunflor Vino’.
The new Carnation is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program is to develop new compact Carnation cultivars suitable for container production with attractive flower color and early flowering.
The new Carnation originated from a cross made by the Inventor of the
Dianthus caryophyllus
cultivar ‘Sunflor Surprise’ (U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/379,263) as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary
Dianthus caryophyllus
selection identified as 87083-04, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar ‘Sunflor Vino’ was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands, in 1994.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Aalsmeer, The Netherlands, has shown that the unique features of this new Carnation are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Sunflor Vino’. These characteristics in combination distinquish ‘Sunflor Vino’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Large dark purple red-colored flowers.
2. Upright and mounded plant habit.
3. Good basal branching with about 10 lateral branches developing after pinching.
4. Very dark green waxy leaves.
5. Fragrant flowers.
6. Good postproduction longevity.
Plants of the new Carnation differ from its male parent, 87083-04, primarily in flower color.
The new Carnation can be compared to the female parent, the cultivar ‘Sunflor Surprise’. However, in side-by-side comprisons conducted by the Inventor in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands, plants of the new Carnation differ from plants of the cultivar ‘Sunflor Surprise’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Carnation are taller than plants of the cultivar ‘Sunflor Surprise’.
2. Plants of the new Carnation have larger flowers than plants of the cultivar ‘Sunflor Surprise’.
3. Plants of the new Carnation and the cultivar ‘Sunflor Surprise’ differ in flower color.
REFERENCES:
GTITM UPOVROM Citation for ‘Sunflor Vino’ as per QZ PBR 961270; Nov. 15, 1996.*
GTITM UPOVROM Citation for ‘Vino’ as per QZ PBR 961269; Nov. 15, 1996.
Bell Kent L.
Campell Bruce R.
P. Kooij & Zonen B.V.
Whealy C. A.
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