Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Petunia
Plant Patent
2002-09-29
2004-12-28
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Petunia
Plant Patent
active
PP015457
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification:
Petunia×hybrida
cultivar X00-154-1.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Petunia
plant, botanically known as
Petunia×hybrida
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name X00-154-1.
The new
Petunia
is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia. The objective of the breeding program is to create outwardly spreading
Petunias
with numerous small flowers with attractive flower colors.
The new
Petunia
originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in 1999 of a proprietary
Petunia
selection identified as X99.23.9, not patented, as the female, or seed parent, with a proprietary
Petunia
selection identified as X99.27.1, not patented, as the male, or pollen parent. The new
Petunia
was selected as a single plant from the resulting progeny of the cross-pollination by the Inventor in 1999, in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia, on the basis of its outwardly spreading habit and numerous small flowers.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by vegetative cuttings taken in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia since 2000 has shown that the unique features of this new
Petunia
are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar X00-154-1 have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature 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 ‘X00-154-
l
’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘X00-154-1’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, mounded and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit.
3. Small leaf size.
4. Numerous small violet-colored flowers.
5. Resistant to Botrytis and Powdery Mildew.
Compared to plants of the female parent, plants of the new
Petunia
are more mounded, have smaller flowers and differ in flower color. Compared to plants of the male parent, plants of the new
Petunia
are larger, have larger flowers and differ in flower color.
Plants of the new
Petunia
can be compared to plants of the cultivar MP7, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,819. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia, plants of the new
Petunia
differed from plants of the cultivar MP7 in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Petunia
were larger than plants of the cultivar MP7.
2. Plants of the new
Petunia
had larger flowers than plants of the cultivar MP7.
3. Plants of the new
Petunia
and the cultivar MP7 differed in flower color.
REFERENCES:
patent: PP12819 (2002-07-01), Brown
http://armstrong.extension.psu.edu/Horticulture
ewsletters/2002%20Winter%20Vol2%20Newsletter.pdf.*
UPOV-ROM GTITM Computer Database, GTI JOUVE Retrieval Software, citation(s) for ‘X001541’.
Campell Bruce R.
Haas W C
NuFlora International Pty. Ltd.
Whealy C. A.
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