Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Kalanchoe
Plant Patent
2002-05-31
2003-07-08
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Kalanchoe
Plant Patent
active
PP013938
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
cultivar Dark Cora.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant, botanically known as
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Dark Cora’.
The new Kalanchoe is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Hinnerup, Denmark. The objective of the breeding program was to create new freely-flowering Kalanchoe cultivars with compact plant habit and excellent postproduction longevity.
The new Kalanchoe is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of the
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
cultivar Cora, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,301. The cultivar Dark Cora was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within a population of plants of the cultivar Cora in a controlled environment in Hinnerup, Denmark.
Asexual reproduction of the new Kalanchoe by terminal cuttings taken at Hinnerup, Denmark, by the Inventor, has shown that the unique features of this new Kalanchoe are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cultivar Dark Cora has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, daylength and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Dark Cora’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Dark Cora’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright and compact plant habit.
2. Dark green-colored leaves.
3. Large light red purple-colored flowers.
4. Excellent postproduction longevity.
Plants of the new Kalanchoe are most similar to plants of the cultivar Cora and differ primarily from plants of the cultivar Cora in flower color.
Kizilkaya Michelle
Knud Jepsen A/S
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