Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2001-12-28
2004-04-27
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP014730
ABSTRACT:
Genus/species: Nemesia hybrid.
Denomination: ‘Pencand’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Nemesia plant known botanically as Nemesia hybrid and that will be referred to hereinafter by the cultivar name ‘Pencand’.
The new Nemesia is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Netherwent, Wales. The breeding program objectives were to improve upon well-known varieties such as
Nemesia denticulata
‘Confetti’ (unpatented),
Nemesia caerulea
‘Innocence’ (unpatented),
Nemesia caerulea
‘Joan Wilder’ (unpatented),
Nemesia caerulea
‘Woodcote’ (unpatented), and
Nemesia caerulea
‘Elliott's’ (unpatented). The goals of the breeding program were to improve on plant habit by breeding plants that were more compact, with stiff, upright flower spikes, increase the size of the flower and the length of flowering time, improve the color range by producing clear colors, and produce plants that root readily and consistently from vegetative stem cuttings.
The new Nemesia originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in 1996 of an unnamed and unpatented Nemesia hybrid, as the female, or seed, parent with an unnamed and unpatented Nemesia hybrid, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar ‘Pencand’ was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a plant within the progeny from this cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Netherwent, Wales, in 1996.
‘Pencand’ is distinguishable from the parent plants by white to pink flowers with yellow center, a trailing, compact, mounding habit, and dense, upright fragrant flower spikes. The leaves are lanceolate in shape and exhibit thicker tissue than other Nemesia known to the inventor.
‘Pencand’ was first asexually propagated by the Inventor in 1997 in a cultivated area or Netherwent, Wales using vegetative stem cuttings and has shown that the unique features of this new Nemesia plant 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 represent the distinguishing characteristics of ‘Pencand’. In combinaton these traits set the new cultivar apart from all other existing varieties of Nemesia known to the inventor. ‘Pencand’ has not been tested under all possible conditions and phenotypic differences may be observed with variations in environmental, climatic, and cultural conditions, however, without any variance in genotype.
1. Nemesia ‘Pencand’ exhibits a trailing, mounding and compact habit.
2. Each individual plant of Nemesia ‘Pencand’ exhibits fragrant flowers that are white to pink in color with yellow centers.
3. Nemesia ‘Pencand’ exhibits dense upright flower spikes.
4. Nemesia ‘Pencand’ is floriferous and exhibits large, repeat-flowering heads.
5. Nemesia ‘Pencand’ is hardy to minus 5° Centigrade.
6. Nemesia ‘Pencand’ can be used in beds, borders and window boxes.
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