Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-10-22
2001-12-11
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012261
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 name Aksinto.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Aabyhoj, Denmark. The objective of the breeding program was to create new Osteospermum cultivars with interesting ray floret colors and heat-tolerance.
The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the Inventor of a proprietary selection of
Osteospermum ecklonis
identified as code number 9631 as the female, or seed, parent and the
Osteospermum ecklonis
cultivar Dondo, disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/291,104, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Osteospermum was selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of this cross in a controlled environment in Aabyhoj, Denmark, in 1996.
Plants of the new Osteospermum are less spreading, have smaller inflorescences and shorter peduncles than plants of the female parent, the selection 9631. Plants of the new Osteospermum are more compact, have shorter peduncles and have lighter lavender ray florets than plants of the male parent, the cultivar Dondo.
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 ‘Aksinto’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Aksinto’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact and mounding growth habit.
2. Very uniform plant habit.
3. Freely flowering with numerous inflorescences per plant.
4. Light lavender ray florets and blue purple disc florets.
5. Short peduncles, flowers held just above and beyond the foliage.
6. Good high temperature tolerance.
The new cultivar can be compared to the Osteospermum cultivar Cape Daisy Congo, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,342. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Encinitas, Calif., plants of the new cultivar differ from plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Congo in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Osteospermum have a more compact, mounded and uniform plant habit than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Congo.
2. Plants of the Osteospermum have shorter internodes, more leaves and are more freely branching than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Congo and are therefore denser and bushier.
3. Plants of the new Osteospermum are much more freely flowering, especially during the summer, than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Congo.
4. Plants of the new Osteospermum have a larger disc diameter than plants of the cutivar Cape Daisy Congo.
5. Plants of the new Osteospermum have shorter peduncles than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Congo.
The cultivar Aksinto 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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