Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-12-31
2001-06-12
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011921
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant, botanically known as
Pelargonium×hortorum×P. peltatum,
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Balgalsabe’.
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 the combination of the spreading growth habit of Ivy Geraniums with the large spherical umbels of Zonal Geraniums; freely-branching growth habit; medium green-colored leaves; and attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Geranium originated from a self-pollination of the interspecific
Pelargonium×hortorum×P. peltatum
cultivar ‘Sunrise’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,139. The cultivar ‘Balgalsabe’ was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Arroyo Grande in 1997.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Arroyo Grande 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 ‘Balgalsabe’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balgalsabe’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Semi-double dark red-colored flowers.
2. Very freely flowering.
3. Upright and rounded to spreading growth habit.
4. Freely basal-branching habit.
The new Geranium can be compared to the parent cultivar, ‘Sunrise’. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Arroyo Grande, plants of the new Geranium differ from plants of the cultivar ‘Sunrise’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Geranium are smaller and not as vigorous as plants of the cultivar ‘Sunrise’.
2. Plants of the new Geranium are more freely branching than plants of the cultivar ‘Sunrise’.
3. Plants of the new Geranium have leaves with a sharply crenate margin whereas plants of the cultivar ‘Sunrise’ have leaves with a less sharply crenate margin.
4. Plants of the new Geranium have semi-double flowers whereas plants of the cultivar ‘Sunrise’ have single flowers.
5. Plants of the new Geranium have shorter peduncles than plants of the cultivar ‘Sunrise’.
REFERENCES:
patent: P.P. 11490 (2000-08-01), Trees
Ball Floraplant a division of Ball Horticultural Co.
Bell Kent L.
Campell Bruce R.
Whealy C. A.
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