Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
2002-04-01
2003-07-22
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP013998
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Pelargonium×hortorum
cultivar ‘Baldescher’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant, botanically known as
Pelargonium×hortorum
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Baldescher’.
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 is to develop new vigorous Zonal Geranium cultivars that flower uniformly and have attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Geranium originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in 1998 of a proprietary
Pelargonium×hortorum
selection identified as code number 8574-4, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary
Pelargonium×hortorum
selection identified as code number 6840-3, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar Baldescher was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny from this cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Arroyo Grande, Calif.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Arroyo Grande, Calif., since June, 2000 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 ‘Baldescher’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Baldescher’ as a new and distinct Geranium cultivar:
1. Upright and mounded growth habit.
2. Freely basal branching habit.
3. Medium green-colored leaves with a faint zonation pattern.
4. Red-colored semi-double flowers.
Plants of the new Geranium differ primarily from plants of the female parent selection in leaf and flower coloration. Plants of the new Geranium differ primarily from plants of the male parent selection in flower form.
The new Geranium can be compared to the cultivar, ‘Fissamba’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat No. 10,364. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in West Chicago, Ill., plants of the new Geranium differed from plants of the cultivar Fissamba in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Geranium had fewer leaves per lateral branch than plants of the cultivar Fissamba.
2. Plants of the new Geranium had smaller and lighter green-colored leaves than plants of the cultivar Fissamba.
3. Plants of the new Geranium had fewer petals per flower than plants of the cultivar Fissamba.
4. Plants of the new Geranium had longer peduncles than plants of the cultivar Fissamba.
Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural Co.
Bell Kent
Whealy C. A.
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