Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
2001-11-30
2002-11-19
Bell, Kent L. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP013240
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DENOMINATION
Pelargonium peltatum
cultivar ‘Duemor’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Ivy Geranium plant, botanically known as
Pelargonium peltatum
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Duemor’.
The new Ivy Geranium is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Rheinberg, Germany. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new Ivy Geraniums with attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Ivy Geranium originated from a cross made by the Inventor of two unidentified proprietary selections of
Pelargonium peltatum
, not patented. The cultivar ‘Duemor’ was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny from this cross in a controlled environment in Rheinberg, Germany.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal vegetative cuttings taken at Rheinberg, Germany has shown that the unique features of this new Ivy 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 ‘Duemor’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Duemor’ as a new cultivar and distinguish it from other known Ivy Geranium cultivars:
1. Upright and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely basal branching habit.
3. Freely flowering habit.
4. Lavender purple-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Ivy Geranium differ primarily from plants of the parent selections in flower color.
The new Ivy Geranium can be compared to plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’, not patented. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Rheinberg, Germany, plants of the new Ivy Geranium differed from plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Ivy Geranium were more compact and had shorter internodes than plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’.
2. Plants of the new Ivy Geranium had larger leaves than plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’.
3. Leaves of the new Ivy Geranium had a distinct zonation pattern whereas leaves of plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’ did not have a distinct zonation pattern.
4. Flower color of plants of the new Ivy Geranium was darker than flower color of plants of the cultivar ‘Butterfly’.
Bell Kent L.
Dümmen Jungpflanzen GbR
Whealy C. A.
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