Plants – Shrub or vine
Plant Patent
2003-04-23
2004-02-24
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Plant Patent
active
PP014562
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Hypericum inodorum
cultivar Kolmfir.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Hypericum plant, botanically known as
Hypericum inodorum
, commercially used as cut stems with fruits, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Kolmfir’.
The new Hypericum is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Wageningen, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program was to develop cut Hypericum varieties with attractive fruit coloration.
The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the Inventor in 1999 of two unidentified proprietary seedling selections, not patented. The cultivar Kolmfir was discovered and selected by the Inventor in 2000 as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Asexual reproduction of the new Hypericum by terminal cuttings. taken at Boskoop, The Netherlands, has shown that the unique features of this new Hypericum 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 ‘Kolmfir’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Kolmfir’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Dark green leaves.
3. Bright red-colored fruits.
4. Good postproduction longevity.
Plants of the new Hypericum differ from plants of the parent seedling selections primarily in fruit coloration.
Plants of the new Hypericum can be compared to plants of the Hypericum cultivar Kolmred, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,544. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Boskoop, The Netherlands, plants of the new Hypericum had darker colored fruits than plants of the cultivar Kolmred.
REFERENCES:
patent: PP10979 (1999-06-01), van den Bosch
patent: PP10993 (1999-07-01), van den Bosch
patent: PP10994 (1999-07-01), van den Bosch
patent: PP11619 (2000-11-01), van den Bosch
patent: PP12675 (2002-06-01), van den Bosch
patent: PP13488 (2003-01-01), de Jong
patent: PP13538 (2003-02-01), de Jong
patent: PP13540 (2003-02-01), de Jong
patent: PP13554 (2003-02-01), de Jong
patent: PP13558 (2003-02-01), Kolster
UPOV ROM GTITM Computer Database, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software 2003/04 Citations for ‘Kolmfir’.
Campell Bruce R.
Gebr. Kolster B.V.
Haas W C
Whealy C. A.
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