Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
1999-06-01
2003-01-21
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP013485
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of geranium plant, botanically known as
Pelargonium zonale
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Fisrosimo’.
‘Fisrosimo’ is a product of a planned breeding program which had the objective of creating geranium cultivars with single or semi-double flowers with distinct ‘eyes’ in combination with dark green foliage.
‘Fisrosimo’ was originated from a hybridization made by the inventor, Angelika Utecht, in a controlled breeding program in Galdar, Gran Canaria, Spain, in 1993. The female parent was the variety ‘Icecrystal’ (unpatented), having light violet, semi-double flowers with rose-red to purple eyes, relatively large, grass-green leaves without zonation, and medium tall plant habit. The male parent of ‘Fisrosimo’ was a hybrid seedling, designated no. 508/6, which was characterized by single white flowers with large pink eyes, dark green foliage without zonation, and relatively compact habit. Hybrid seedling no. 508/6 was derived from crossings of a tetraploid line of ‘Stadt Bern’ (unpatented, commercial variety with very dark-green foliage) with white-flowering seedlings (proprietary breeding lines/plant material).
‘Fisrosimo’ was selected as one flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross by the inventor, Angelika Utecht, in 1994 in a controlled environment in Galdar, Gran Canaria, Spain.
The first act of asexual reproduction of ‘Fisrosimo’ was accomplished when vegetative cuttings were taken from the initial selection in autumn 1994 in a controlled environment in Galdar, Gran Canaria, Spain by Angelika Utecht. Horticultural examination of plants grown from these cuttings, initiated in May 1995 in Hillscheid, Federal Republic of Germany, and continuing thereafter, has demonstrated that the combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for ‘Fisrosimo’ are firmly fixed and are retained through successive generations of asexual reproduction.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be basic characteristics of ‘Fisrosimo’, which in combination distinguish this geranium as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Weakly semi-double, light pink flowers with distinct rose eyes;
2. Very large umbrella-shaped inflorescence;
3. Uniform, dark-green colored foliage without zonation;
4. Moderately compact, uniformly-shaped and well-branched plant habit; and
5. Early to medium flowering response.
‘Fisrosimo’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotpye of the new cultivar may vary significantly with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity and daylength without any change in the genotype of the plant. The following observations, measurements, and comparisons describe plants grown in Hillscheid, Germany, and in Langley, Bristish Columbia, Canada, under greenhouse conditions which approximate those generally used in commercial practice.
Of the many commercial cultivars known to the present inventor, the most similar in comparison to ‘Fisrosimo’ is the variety ‘Fisbravo’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,765). In comparison to ‘Fisbravo’, ‘Fisrosimo’ has a somewhat lighter and slightly more bluish main flower color, smaller, but more distinct rose eyes on its petals, larger and differently shaped umbels, and foliage without zonation.
REFERENCES:
patent: 473 (1998-12-01), None
patent: 98-1365 (1998-04-01), None
patent: 98-26-1432 (1998-04-01), None
patent: PEL 1363 (1996-09-01), None
patent: 97/0961 (1997-09-01), None
Pelargonium 1998, Pelfi Fischer, Hillscheid Germany, p. 7 (1998/1999).
Licensing agreement for ‘Fisrosimo’, http://www.sicasov.com/baremes/f-f9899.htm, 1998/1999.*
Kessler, Greenhouse Production of Zonal Geranium, http://www.aces.edu/department/extcomm/publications/anr/anr-1106/anr-1106.htm, Apr. 1998.*
UPOV-ROM GTIM Computer Database 1999/02, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software, citation for ‘Fisrosimo’, 1996-1998.
Campell Bruce R.
Florfis AG
Foley & Lardner
Grünberg Anne Marie
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