Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
2003-06-02
2004-03-23
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
active
PP014622
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
cultivar Yellow Contact.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Yellow Contact’.
The new Chrysanthemum is a naturally-occurring branch mutation of
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
cultivar Contact, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,734. The new Chrysanthemum was discovered and selected by the Inventor within a population of plants of the cultivar Contact in Madrid, Cundinamarca, Colombia, South America in July, 1998. The selection of this mutation was based on its desirable inflorescence color and good form and substance.
Asexual reproduction of the new Chrysanthemum by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Madrid, Cundinamarca, Colombia, South America since October, 1998, has shown that the unique features of this new Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Yellow Contact have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in envirorunent 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 ‘Yellow Contact’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Yellow Contact’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright cut Chrysanthemum that is usually grown as a natural spray.
2. Freely flowering habit, about seven or eight inflorescences per flowering stem.
3. Quill-type decorative-type inflorescences that are about 8.1 cm in diameter.
4. Attractive bright yellow-colored ray florets.
5. Response time about 64 days.
6. Dark green foliage.
7. Strong peduncles.
8. Excellent postproduction longevity with inflorescences and foliage maintaining good substance and color for about 21 days in an interior environment.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are most similar to plants of the cultivar Contact. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Alva, Fla., plants of the new Chrysanthemum differed from plants of the cultivar Contact in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flowered later than plants of the cultivar Contact.
2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum and the cultivar Contact differed in ray floret coloration under low night temperatures. Ray florets of plants of the new Chrysanthemum maintained the bright yellow coloration when exposed to low night temperatures whereas ray florets of the cultivar Contact “bronzed”.
Grunberg Anne Marie
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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