Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
2001-06-11
2002-12-03
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP013306
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Pelagaronium×hortorum
cultivar Kleflasal.
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 name ‘Kleflasal’.
The new Geranium is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Stuttgart, Germany. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new Geraniums with unique flower forms, freely-branching growth habit and interesting flower and foliage colors.
The new Geranium originated from a cross made by the Inventor in July, 1996 of the
Pelargonium×hortorum
cultivar Gemini, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,980, as the female, or seed, parent with an unidentified proprietary selection of
Pelargonium×hortorum
, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar Kleflasal was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny from this cross in a controlled environment in Stuttgart, Germany, in June, 1997.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Stuttgart, Germany, since July, 1997 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 ‘Kleflasal’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Kleflasal’ as a new cultivar and distinguish it from other known Geranium cultivars:
1. Upright and rounded growth habit.
2. Freely basal branching habit.
3. Star-shaped green-colored leaves with darker green zonation pattern.
4. Star-shaped pink-colored single flowers.
Plants of the new Geranium differ primarily from plants of the cultivar Gemini in flower color. In addition, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Stuttgart, Germany, plants of the new Geranium are stronger and more vigorous than plants of the cultivar Gemini. Plants of the new Geranium differ primarily from plants of the male selection in leaf and petal shape.
Hwu June
Klemm & Sohn GmbH + Co. KG
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