Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
2001-03-31
2002-03-26
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012487
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant, botanically known as
Pelargonium peltatum
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Balcoldepi’.
The new Geranium is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Arroyo Grande, Calif. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new cultivars with freely-branching and vigorous growth habit, medium or dark green-colored foliage, uniform flowering, and interesting flower and foliage colors.
The new Geranium originated from a cross made by the Inventor of the proprietary
Pelargonium peltatum
selection 8295-42 as the female, or seed, parent with the proprietary
Pelargonium peltatum
selection 8315-B as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar ‘Balcoldepi’ was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny from this cross in a controlled environment in Arroyo Grande, Calif., in 1998.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Arroyo Grande, Calif., has shown that the unique features of this new Geranium 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 ‘Balcoldepi’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balcoldepi’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright and mounded growth habit.
2. Freely basal branching habit.
3. Medium green leaves with dark brown zonation pattern.
4. Dark pink-colored double flowers.
5. Freely flowering with numerous flower umbels per plant.
Plants of the new Geranium differ primarily from plants of the parent selections in flower form as flowers of the parent selections are semi-double and flowers of the new Geranium are double.
The new Geranium can be compared to the cultivar, ‘Nicole’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,358. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Arroyo Grande, Calif., plants of the new Geranium differ from plants of the cultivar ‘Nicole’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Geranium are much more freely branching and more vigorous than plants of the cultivar ‘Nicole’.
2. Plants of the new geranium have longer lateral branches and longer internodes than plants of the cultivar ‘Nicole’.
3. Plants of the new Geranium have larger leaves and more leaves per lateral branch than plants of the cultivar ‘Nicole’.
4. Plants of the new Geranium have more flower umbels than plants of the cultivar ‘Nicole’.
5. Flower color of the new Geranium is darker pink than flower color of the cultivar ‘Nicole’.
Ball FloraPlant, A division of Ball Horticultural Co.
Bell Kent L.
Campell Bruce R.
Whealy C. A.
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