Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2001-01-22
2002-08-13
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP012850
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Ornithogalum plant, botanically known as
Ornithogalum thyrsoides
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Chesapeake Starlight’.
The new Ornithogalum is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventors in Beltsville, Md. and Escondido, Calif. The objective of the breeding program was to create new freely-flowering Ornithogalums with unique and desirable flower colors and strong and tall scapes.
The new Ornithogalum originated from a self-pollination of a selection originating from a cross made by the Inventors of the
Ornithogalum thyrsoides
cultivar Bok Bay, not patented, with an unidentified selection of
Ornithogalum thyrsoides
, not patented. The cultivar Chesapeake Starlight was discovered and selected by the Inventors as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Beltsville, Md. in 1994.
Asexual reproduction of the new Ornithogalum by tissue culture in a controlled environment in a laboratory in Beltsville, Md., has shown that the unique features of this new Ornithogalum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cultivar ‘Chesapeake Starlight’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, daylength, light intensity, and water or nutritional status without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Chesapeake Starlight’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Chesapeake Starlight’ as a new and distinct Ornithogalum:
1. Strong, upright and long scapes.
2. Dense corymbose racemes with numerous white-colored flowers.
In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventors in Beltsville, Md., plants of the new Ornithogalum differ from plants of the cultivar Bok Bay, in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Ornithogalum flower about five weeks earlier than plants of the cultivar Bok Bay.
2. Plants of the new Ornithogalum have longer scapes than plants of the cultivar Bok Bay.
3. Plants of the new Ornithogalum have white-colored flowers whereas plants of the cultivar Bok Bay have cream-colored flowers.
In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventors in Beltsville, Md., plants of the new Ornithogalum differ from plants of unidentified selection of
Ornithogalum thyrsoides
, in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Ornithogalum are more freely flowering than plants of the unidentified selection of
Ornithogalum thyrsoides.
2. Plants of the new Ornithogalum have stronger scapes than plants of the unidentified selection of
Ornithogalum thyrsoides.
3. Plants of the new Ornithogalum have a denser (less open) flower display than plants of the unidentified selection of
Ornithogalum thyrsoides.
Griesbach Robert
Meyer Fred
Campell Bruce R.
Hwu June
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
Whealy C. A.
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