Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Osteospermum
Plant Patent
2002-03-12
2002-12-17
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Osteospermum
Plant Patent
active
PP013364
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Osteospermum ecklonis
cultivar Sunny Diana.
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 ‘Sunny Diana’.
The new Osteospermum is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Odense, Denmark. The objective of the breeding program is to create new Osteospermum cultivars with attractive ray and disc floret colors.
The new Osteospermum originated from a cross made by the Inventor in May, 1997 of a proprietary selection of
Osteospermum ecklonis
identified as code number 3.44.97, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary selection of
Osteospermum ecklonis
identified as code number 1.44.92, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Osteospermum was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross grown in a controlled environment in Odense, Denmark in June, 2000.
Asexual reproduction of the new Osteospermum by terminal vegetative cuttings was first conducted in Odense, Denmark in June, 2000. 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 Sunny Diana 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 ‘Sunny Diana’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Sunny Diana’ as a new and distinct Osteospermum:
1. Upright plant habit.
2. Freely branching growth habit.
3. Freely flowering habit.
4. Pale yellow-colored ray florets.
Plants of the new Osteospermum differ from plants of the parents primarily in ray floret color.
Plants of the new Osteospermum can be compared to plants of the cultivar Seidacre, disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/996,362. However, plants of the new Osteospermum are more upright, have larger leaves, have larger inflorescences, and have lighter colored ray florets than plants of the cultivar Seidacre.
REFERENCES:
patent: PP10996 (1999-07-01), Larsen et al.
UPOV ROM GTITM Computer Database 2003/02, GTI JOUVE Retrieval Software, Citation(s) for PBR001620.
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