Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Kalanchoe
Plant Patent
2002-02-22
2002-12-17
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Kalanchoe
Plant Patent
active
PP013365
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
cultivar Leonardo.
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 ‘Leonardo’.
The new Kalanchoe is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of the
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
cultivar Bromo, not patented. The cultivar Leonardo was discovered and selected in March, 1999 as a flowering plant within a population of plants of the cultivar Bromo in a controlled environment in Svegin, Sweden.
Asexual reproduction of the new Kalanchoe by terminal vegetative cuttings taken at De Lier, The Netherlands, since 2000 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 Leonardo 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 ‘Leonardo’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Leonardo’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Numerous double red purple-colored flowers.
2. Upright, uniform and compact plant habit.
3. Freely branching growth habit.
4. Dark green glossy leaves.
5. Early flowering.
6. Excellent postproduction longevity.
Plants of the new Kalanchoe are most similar to plants of the parent, the cultivar Bromo. However, plants of the new Kalanchoe differ from plants of the cultivar Bromo primarily in flower form as plants of the new Kalanchoe have double flowers with more than one row of petals per flower whereas plants of the cultivar Bromo have single flowers with one row of four petals per flower.
REFERENCES:
UPOV ROM GTITM Computer Database, GTI JOUVE Retrieval software 2002/02, citation(s) for ‘Leonardo’.
Baker Wendy A
Campell Bruce R.
Fides Goldstuke Breeding, B.V.
Whealy C. A.
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