Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-02-22
2001-05-08
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011863
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant, botanically known as
Osteospermum ecklonis
and referred to by the cultivar name ‘White Moon’.
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 flowers.
The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the Inventor in 1993 of a proprietary selection of
Osteospermum ecklonis
identified as 90/75 as the female, or seed, parent and the
Osteospermum ecklonis
cultivar Sparkler II, not patented, 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 1993.
Plants of the new cultivar are different from plants of the female parent, the selection 90/75 in leaf shape, peduncle length and inflorescence size. Plants of the new Osteospermum are more compact than plants of the male parent, the cultivar Sparkler II.
Asexual propagation of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings and by tissue culture at Emerald, Victoria, Australia, 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 ‘White Moon’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘White Moon’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright, mounding and outwardly spreading growth habit.
2. Small numerous leaves and large upright inflorescences on long peduncles.
3. Vigorous and freely branching.
4. White-colored ray florets contrasted by dark bluish purple-tipped disc florets and bluish base of ray florets.
5. Numerous inflorescences per plant.
The new cultivar can be compared to the Osteospermum cultivar Sparkler, not patented. However in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Emerald, Victoria, Australia, plants of the new cultivar are more compact and differ in leaf shape, inflorescence size and peduncle length.
The cultivar ‘White Moon’ 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.
REFERENCES:
Huxley, A., Griffiths, M., and Levy, M.. The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. Vol. 3. p. 416, Jul. 10, 1992.
Campell Bruce R.
Kizilkata Michelle
Whealy C. A.
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