Plants – Fruit – Ficus
Plant Patent
2000-09-13
2002-06-25
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Fruit
Ficus
Plant Patent
active
PP012728
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Ficus benjamina
‘Midnight’. The varietal denomination of the new cultivar is ‘Mini Midnight’. The new variety was discovered as a mutation in a controlled planting of
Ficus benjamina
‘Midnight’ in a greenhouse in _s'Gravenzande, The Netherlands in 01/05 in 1996.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new variety is a mutation of the variety
Ficus ‘Midnight
’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,856. The new variety was selected by The Discovery of a mutation and selected by Jan van Geest. The Ficus ‘Midnight’ Plants that the new variety mutated from were in a controlled planting under glass in Gravenzade, The Netherlands at The Kwekerij P. van Geest in Jan. 5, 1996. The new variety was first asexually propagated by vegetative cutting in February 1996, in ‘s’Gravenzande, The Netherlands. Asexual reproduction through succeeding generations has established that the combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for the new cultivar are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of asexual reproduction.
COMPARISON WITH PARENT AND OTHER VARIETIES
Comparison of the Ficus ‘Mini Midnight’ differs from the parent plant the Ficus ‘Midnight’ in that the size of the leaves are much smaller and the plant has a heavy lateral branching than that of the parent plant. The growth pattern is much more compact and the internodes are of much shorter length. Midnight grown under the same conditions of the ‘Mini Midnight’ will have larger leaves, sparser branching and internode lengths will be longer. The leaf color of the Midnight and the ‘Mini Midnight’ are nearly identical when grown under identical conditions. The leaves of both ‘Midnight’ and ‘Mini Midnight’ are thick glossy and leathery and a dark attractive green that is almost blue-black without variegation on the leaves.
Campell Bruce R.
McCormick Susan B.
Plantenwekerij J. Van Geest, B.V.
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