Plants – Shrub or vine – Lantana
Plant Patent
2001-03-31
2002-08-27
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Lantana
Plant Patent
active
PP012883
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Lantana plant, botanically known as
Lantana camara
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Sonset’.
The new Lantana was discovered in by the Inventor in Clinton, Miss., as a naturally-occuring branch mutation of the
Latana camara
cultivar ‘Sonrise’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,856.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in Clinton, Miss., since the summer of 1999, has shown that the unique features of this new Lantana are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar ‘Sonset’ have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment and culture such as temperature, light intensity, daylength, water status, and/or fertilizer rate or type without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Sonset’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Sonset’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright, mounded and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit.
3. Freely flowering habit.
4. Intense golden yellow, red and purple-colored flowers.
5. Excellent garden performance.
Plants of the new Lantana differ from plants of the patent, the cultivar ‘Sonrise’, in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Lantana are more compact than plants of the cultivar ‘Sonrise’.
2. Flower colors of plants of the new Lantana are more intense and more saturated than flower colors of plants of the cultivar ‘Sonrise’.
Plants of the new Lantana can be compared to plants of the cultivar ‘Robpatdes’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,156. However, in side-by-side comparisions conducted by the Inventor in Clinton, Miss., plants of the new Lantana differ from plants of the cultivar ‘Robpatdes’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Lantana are larger and more vigorous than plants of the cultivar ‘Robpatdes’.
2. Plants of the new Lantana are more freely and consistently flowering than plants of the cultivar ‘Robpatdes’.
3. Plants of the new Lantana are hardier than plants of the cultivar ‘Robpatdes’.
4. Plants of the new Lantana and the cultivar ‘Robpatdes’ differ slightly in flower color.
Plants of the new Lantana can also be compared to plants of the cultivar ‘Dallas Red’, not patented. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Clinton, Miss., plants of the new Lantana differ from plants of the cultivar ‘Dallas Red’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Lantana are more freely flowering and flower more continuously than plants of the cultivar ‘Dallas Red’.
2. Plants of the new Lantana are more hardy than plants of the cultivar ‘Dallas Red’.
3. Plants of the new Lantana and the cultivar ‘Dallas Red’ differ slightly in flower color.
REFERENCES:
patent: PP9837 (1997-03-01), Roberson
Bell Kent L.
Campell Bruce R.
Clinton Nursery, Inc.
Whealy C. A.
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