Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
2004-02-21
2004-11-16
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP015327
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Pelargonium peltatum
cultivar KLEP02102.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Geranium
plant, botanically known as
Pelargonium peltatum
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘KLEP02102’.
The new Ivy
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 Ivy
Geraniums
with uniform and trailing plant habit and interesting flower and foliage colors.
The new Ivy
Geranium
originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in 1998 of a proprietary selection of
Pelargonium peltatum
identified as code number PM 005, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with the
Pelargonium peltatum
cultivar Kleblue, disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/250,014, now abandoned, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar KLEP02102 was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the resulting progeny from this cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1999.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Stuttgart, Germany since 2000 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 ‘KLEP02102’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘KLEP02102’ as a new cultivar and distinguish it from other known Ivy
Geranium
cultivars:
1. Vigorous plant growth habit.
2. Freely branching habit.
3. Early flowering habit.
4. Red purple-colored double flowers arranged in umbels.
5. Good tolerance to wind, rain and high temperatures.
Compared to plants of the female parent selection, plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
are more freely branching and have shorter internodes. In addition, flowers of plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
have more petaloids than flowers of plants of the female parent selection. Plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
and the male parent, the cultivar Kleblue, differ primarily in flower color as plants of the cultivar Kleblue have violet-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
can be compared to plants of the cultivar Klerobright, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Stuttgart, Germany, plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
differed from plants of the cultivar Klerobright in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
were not as vigorous as plants of the cultivar Klerobright.
2. Plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
had shorter internodes than plants of the cultivar Klerobright.
3. Leaves of plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
had a less distinct zonation pattern than leaves of plants of the cultivar Klerobright.
4. Plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
and the cultivar Klerobright differed in flower color as plants of the cultivar Klerobright had bright red-colored flowers.
5. Plants of the new Ivy
Geranium
flowered earlier than plants of the cultivar Klerobright.
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