Plants – Shrub or vine – Pittosporum
Plant Patent
2003-12-01
2004-11-16
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Pittosporum
Plant Patent
active
PP015329
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Pittosporum tenuifolium
cultivar Golf Ball.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Pittosporum
, botanically known as
Pittosporum tenuifolium
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Golf Ball’.
The new
Pittosporum
is a product of a self-pollination of an unidentified selection of
Pittosporum tenuifolium
, not patented. The new
Pittosporum
was discovered and selected by the Inventor in a controlled environment in Clive, New Zealand on Nov. 20, 1997, as a single plant within the progeny resulting from the self-pollination.
Asexual reproduction of the new
Pittosporum
by cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Napier, New Zealand, since Mar. 28, 1998, has shown that the unique features of this new
Pittosporum
are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cultivar Golf Ball has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment and cultural practices 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 ‘Golf Ball’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Golf Ball’ as a new and distinct cultivar of
Pittosporum:
1. Compact and roughly spherical plant form.
2. Vigorous growth habit.
3. Freely basal branching habit, dense and bushy plant habit.
4. Dark green-colored leaves.
Plants of the new
Pittosporum
differ from plants of the parent selection primarily in plant form.
Plants of the new
Pittosporum
can be compared to plants of the
Pittosporum
cultivar Little Squirt, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Napier, New Zealand, plants of the new
Pittosporum
differed from plants of the cultivar Little Squirt in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Pittosporum
were more compact and more rounded than plants of the cultivar Little Squirt.
2. Plants of the new
Pittosporum
had shorter internodes and were denser and bushier than plants of the cultivar Little Squirt.
3. Plants of the new
Pittosporum
were more freely basally branching than plants of the cultivar Little Squirt.
Bell Kent
Krawczewicz Myers Louanne
Plant Production Ltd.
Whealy C. A.
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