Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
2003-12-03
2004-11-09
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP015305
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of genus and species of plant claimed:
Pelargonium×hortorum.
Variety denomination: ‘Balshopink’.
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 cultivar name ‘Balshopink’.
The new cultivar originated in a controller breeding program in Weener, Germany during the summer of 1997. The purpose of the breeding program was the creation of
geranium
plants with vigorous upright mounded growth habits, dark green foliage, and unique flower colors.
The female parent of ‘Balshopink’ was ‘Sel Lady’ (not patented). The male parent of ‘Balshopink’ was ‘Sel Kitty’ (not patented). The new
geranium
was discovered and selected by the inventor as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the above stated cross-pollination during the summer of 1998 at Weener, Germany and was initially designated ‘E-105’.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal stem cuttings taken since 1998 at Arroyo Grande, Calif. and West Chicago, Ill. has demonstrated that the new cultivar reproduces true to type with all characteristics, as herein described, firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new cultivar has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions to date. Accordingly, it is possible that the phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in the environment, such as temperature, light intensity, and day length, without, however, any variance in genotype.
It was repeatedly found that the cultivar of the present invention:
1. Forms semi-double pink-colored flowers.
2. Forms dark green-colored leaves with faint zonation, and
3. Exhibits a vigorous upright and mounded growth habit.
Plants of the new cultivar differ from plants of the parent cultivars primarily in flower color and growth habit.
Of the many commercially available
geranium
cultivars known to the inventor, the most similar in comparison to ‘Balshopink’ is ‘BSR-284 Pink’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,287). However, in side-by-side comparisons, plants of ‘Balshopink’ differ from plants of ‘BSR-284 Pink’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of ‘Balshopink’ exhibit smaller flowers than plants of ‘BSR-284 Pink’, and
2. Plants of ‘Balsopink’ have longer peduncles than plants of ‘BSR-284 Pink’.
Bell Kent
Silze GmbH & Co. JG
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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