Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Osteospermum
Plant Patent
2001-11-30
2002-12-24
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Osteospermum
Plant Patent
active
PP013407
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Osteospermum ecklonis
cultivar Seikilrem.
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 name ‘Seikilrem’.
The new Osteospermum is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Gunma-den, Japan. The objective of the breeding program is to create new Osteospermum cultivars with interesting floret colors.
The new Osteospermum was discovered as a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of the
Osteospermum ecklonis
cultivar Seidacre, U.S. Plant patent application filed concurrently, Ser. No. 09/996,362.
The new Osteospermum was discovered and selected by the Inventor in April, 1993, as a single flowering plant within a population of plants of the parent cultivar in a controlled environment in Gunma-den, Japan.
Asexual reproduction of the new Osteospermum by terminal vegetative cuttings was first conducted in Gunma-den, Japan on Jun. 1, 1993. Asexual reproduction by cuttings 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 cultivar Seikilrem 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.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Seikilrem’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Seikilrem’ as a new and distinct Osteospermum:
1. Compact, mounded and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching growth habit.
3. Freely flowering habit.
4. Bright yellow-colored ray florets and dark purple-tipped disc florets.
Plants of the new Osteospermum differ primarily from plants of the parent, the cultivar Seidacre, in ray floret coloration.
Plants of the new Osteospermum are similar in ray floret coloration to plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Zulu, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,389. However, plants of the new Osteospermum are more outwardly spreading and more freely flowering than plants of the cultivar Cape Daisy Zulu.
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