Plants – Fruit – Citrus
Plant Patent
2003-05-13
2004-06-08
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Fruit
Citrus
Plant Patent
active
PP014887
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Citrus aurantifolius
cultivar Mosquito
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Citrus plant, botanically known as
Citrus aurantifolius,
commercially known as Lime, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Mosquito’.
The new Citrus was discovered by the Inventor in 1985 in a controlled environment in Boskoop, The Netherlands, as a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of an unidentified selection of
Citrus aurantifolius,
not patented. The new Citrus was selected by the Inventor on the basis of its unique dark red-colored developing leaves and green and yellow variegated fully expanded leaves.
Asexual reproduction of the new Citrus by cuttings in a controlled environment in Boskoop, The Netherlands, since 1987, has shown that the unique features of this new Citrus are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Mosquito 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 ‘Mosquito’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Mosquito’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright and rounded plant form.
2. Freely branching growth habit.
3. Dark red-colored developing leaves.
4. Green and yellow variegated fully expanded leaves.
Plants of the cultivar Mosquito differ from the parent selection and other Lime cultivars known to the Inventor in its unique dark red-colored developing leaves.
REFERENCES:
UPOV ROM GTITM Computer Database, GTI JOUVE Retrieval software 2003/05 citation for ‘Mosquito’.
Campell Bruce R.
Haas W C
Whealy C. A.
Witteman + Co.
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