Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-06-15
2001-02-27
Kizilkaya, Michelle (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011789
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant, botanically known as
Kalanchoe hybrida
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Elves Bells.
The new Kalanchoe is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Devon Meadows, Victoria, Australia. The objective of the breeding program was to create new bell-type Kalanchoe cultivars with clumping growth habit, large flowers and interesting flower colors.
The new Kalanchoe originated from a cross made by the Inventor of an unnamed selection of
Kalanchoe hybrida
as the male, or pollen, parent with the
Kalanchoe hybrida
cultivar Pixie Bells, not patented, as the female or seed parent. The cultivar Elves Bells was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Devon Meadows, Victoria, Australia, in 1995.
Asexual reproduction of the new Kalanchoe by terminal cuttings taken at Devon Meadows, Victoria, Australia, 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 Elves Bells has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in enviroment 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 ‘Elves Bells’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Elves Bells’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright to spreading and/or weeping plant habit.
2. Very freely clumping growth habit.
3. Dark green, succulent, irregularly-serrated, oblanceolate foliage.
4. Large elongated urceolate dull purplish red flowers arranged in loose terminal cymes.
The new Kalanchoe can be compared to the female parent, the cultivar Pixie Bells. Plants of the new Kalanchoe differs from plants of the cultivar Pixie Bells in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Kalanchoe are more freely clumping and have stronger stems than plants of the cultivar Pixie Bells.
2. Plants of the new Kalanchoe have narrower leaves than plants of the cultivar Pixie Bells.
3. Plants of the new Kalanchoe are more floriferous than plants of the cultivar Pixie Bells.
4. Flowers of plants of the new Kalanchoe are darker purple red than flowers of plants of the cultivar Pixie Bells.
Kizilkaya Michelle
Outeniqua Protea Nursery
Whealy C. A.
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