Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
2000-04-09
2001-10-16
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012149
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant, botanically known as
Osterspermum ecklonis,
and referred to by the cultivar name Vanilla Cream.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Emerald, Victoria, Australia. The objective of the breeding program was to create new compact Osteospermum cultivars with large inflorescences and tolerance to high temperatures.
The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the Inventor of a proprietary selection of
Osteospermum ecklonis
identified as code number ivory 41 as the female, or seed, parent and a proprietary selection of
Osteospermum ecklonis
identified as code number ivory 96, 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 Emerald, Victoria, Australia in 1994.
Plants of the new cultivar are different from plants of the female parent, the selection ivory 41 in plant habit and inflorescence size. Plants of the new Osteospermum are less trailing and have more rounded ray florets than plants of the male parent, the selection ivory 96.
Asexual propagation of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings at Emerald, Victoria, Australia, has shown that the unique features of this new Osteospermum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMERY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Vanilla Cream’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Vanilla Cream’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, mounding and outwardly spreading growth habit.
2. Dark green leaves.
3. Freely branching habit.
4. Ivory-colored ray florets.
5. Numerous inflorescences per lateral stem.
6. Long flowering period.
7. Relatively tolerant to high temperatures.
The new cultivar can be compared to the Osteospermum cultivar Cream Symphony, not patented. However in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Emerald, Victoria, Australia, plants of the new cultivar are more outwardly spreading, are larger and stronger, have ray florets with yellow-striped lower surfaces and have more florets per inflorescence than plants of the cultivar Cream Symphony.
The cultivar Vanilla Cream 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.
Kizilkaya Michelle
Whealy C. A.
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