Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-08-26
2001-07-17
Locker, Howard J. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011991
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as
Dendranthema grandifora
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Rose Delano.
The new Chrysanthemum was discovered by the Inventor in a controlled environment in Layton, Utah in 1995, as a naturally-occurring mutation of the
Dendranthema grandifora
‘Spring Delano’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,843. The new Chrysanthemum was observed as a single plant in a group of flowering plants of the parent cultivar. The selection of this plant was based on its different ray floret color.
Asexual reproduction of the new Chrysanthemum by terminal cuttings harvested in a controlled environment in Alva, Fla., has shown that the unique features of this new Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cultivar Rose Delano has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, daylength 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 ‘Rose Delano’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Rose Delano’ as a new and distinct Chrysanthemum:
1. Upright, outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit, full and dense plants.
3. Large dark green leaves.
4. Uniform flowering.
5. Early flowering, eight-week response time.
6. Large decorative-type inflorescences that are about 11.5 cm in diameter.
7. The ray floret color of plants of the new Chrysanthemum can range from a cream yellow at the base with dark purple-colored apices to mostly cream yellow with occasional dark purple flecking.
8. Good to excellent postproduction longevity with inflorescences and leaves maintaining good substance and color for about three weeks in an interior environment.
Compared to plants of the parent cultivar, Spring Delano, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differ in ray floret color and inflorescence size.
Compared to plants of the cultivar Red Delano, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,345, plants of the new Chrysanthemum have slightly larger inflorescences and differ in ray floret color.
Locker Howard J.
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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