Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
1999-06-01
2002-11-19
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP013235
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 ‘Fistador’.
‘Fistador’ is a product of a planned breeding program which had the objective of creating new geranium varieties with red flower color, medium green, zoned foliage, and medium sized plant habit.
‘Fistador’ was originated from a hybridization made by the inventor, Angelika Utecht, in a controlled breeding program in Galdar, Gran Canaria, Spain, in 1991. The female parent was the cultivar ‘Fisnida’ (unpatented), characterized by single-shaped florets, orange-red flowerheads on strong peduncles, medium green, zoned foliage, and vigorous growth. The male parent of ‘Fistador’ was the commercial variety ‘Robe’, having dark cherry-red, semi-double flowers, light to medium green foliage with weak zonation, and compact plant habit.
‘Fistador’ was selected as one flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross by the inventor, Angelika Utecht, in 1992 in a controlled environment in Galdar, Gran Canaria, Spain.
The first act of asexual reproduction of ‘Fistador’ was accomplished when vegetative cuttings were taken from the initial selection in autumn 1992 in a controlled environment in Galdar, Gran Canaria, Spain by Angelika Utecht. Horticultural examination of plants grown from cuttings of the clone, initiated in May 1993 in Hillscheid, Federal Republic of Germany, and continuing thereafter, has demonstrated that the combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for ‘Fistador’ 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 ‘Fistador’, which in combination distinguish this geranium as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Scarlet to orange-red semi-double flowers;
2. Semi-spherically shaped inflorescence;
3. Medium green foliage with distinct zonation;
4. Medium sized plant habit, relatively compact during cultivation, fairly vigorous growth outdoors; and
5. Early to medium flowering response.
‘Fistador’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype 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, British 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 ‘Fistador’ is the related cultivar ‘Fissamba’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,364). In comparison to ‘Fissamba’, ‘Fistador’ has a slightly lighter, more orange-red or scarlet shade of flower color, somewhat differently shaped inflorescence (wider, semi-spherical, not spherical), weaker anthocyanin (reddish) coloring of pedicels and sepals, slightly stronger zonation, somewhat stronger growth and more rounded, lower and wider plant habit.
REFERENCES:
patent: 475 (1998-12-01), None
patent: 98-1366 (1998-04-01), None
patent: 98-26-1425 (1998-04-01), None
patent: PEL 1014 (1994-06-01), None
patent: 96/0419 (1996-03-01), None
UPOV-ROM GTIM Computer Database 1999/02, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software, citation for ‘Fistador’, 1994-1998.*
Licensing agreement for ‘Fisrosimo’, http://www.sicasov.com/baremes/f-fl9899.htm, 1998-1999.*
Kessler, Greenhouse Production of Zonal Geranium, http://www.aces.edu/department/extcomm/publications/anr/anr-1106/anr-1106.htm, Apr. 1998.*
Pelargonium 1998, Pelfi Fischer, Hillscheid Germany, p. 7 (1998/1999).
Campell Bruce R.
Florfis AG
Foley & Lardner
Grünberg Anne Marie
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