Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-10-22
2001-12-11
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012263
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant, botanically known as
Osteospermum ecklonis
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar named Aksillo.
The new Osteospermum was discovered by the Inventor in a controlled environment in Aabyhoj, Denmark, in 1996, as a naturally-occurring mutation of
Osteospermum ecklonis
‘Cape Daisy Nairobi’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,340. The new Osteospermum was observed as a single plant in a group of flowering plants of the parent cultivar. The selection of this plant was based on its unique ray floret shape. Plants of the new Osteospermum have spoon-shaped ray florets whereas plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Nairobi have flat, ligulate ray florets.
Asexual propagation of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings at Aabyhoj, has shown that the unique features of this new Osteospermum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Aksillo’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Aksillo’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, mounding and spreading plant habit.
2. Freely flowering with numerous inflorescences per plant.
3. Spoon-shaped white ray florets with blue purple lower surfaces and blue purple disc florets.
4. Good high temperature tolerance.
The new cultivar can be compared to the Osteospermum cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,491. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Encinitas, Calif., plants of the new cultivar differ from plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Osteospermum are more compact and more spreading (less upright) than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua.
2. Plants of the new Osteospermum have shorter internodes and more leaves than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua and are therefore denser and bushier.
3. Foliage of plants of the new Osteospermum is not fragrant whereas foliage of plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua has a spicy fragrance.
4. Plants of the new Osteospermum are more freely flowering, especially during the summer, than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua.
5. Plants of the new Osteospermum have slightly larger inflorescensces than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua.
6. Plants of the new Osteospermum have shorter peduncles than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua.
7. Ray florets of plants of the new Osteospermum have a more pronounced spoon-shape than ray florets of plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Namaqua.
The cultivar Aksillo 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.
Campell Bruce R.
McCormick Susan B.
Ranch Paul Ecke
Whealy C. A.
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