Poinsettia plant named ‘Fisgala’

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1998-12-11

2001-10-30

Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)

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PP012178

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Poinsettia plant known by the cultivar name ‘Fisgala’ and botanically known as
Euphorbia pulcherrima.
‘Fisgala’ is a product of a planned breeding program which had the objective of creating new poinsettia cultivars with red bract color, dark-green foliage, good branching characteristics and early flowering response. ‘Fisgala’ was originated from hybridization made in a controlled breeding program in Hillscheid, Germany, in 1994.
The female parent was a proprietary hybrid seedling No. S90-1202-1 characterized by bright-red bract color, medium-green foliage and very compact habit. The male parent was a hybrid seedling No. S90-502-1, with red-colored bracts, dark-green foliage and early flowering. ‘Fisgala’ was discovered and selected as one flowering plant (No. 4747) within the progeny of the stated parentage by Katharina Zerr in autumn of 1995 in a controlled environment in Hillscheid, Germany.
The seeds from the cross-germination in February of 1995 and the seedlings were identified by numbers. In summer of 1995 in Hillscheid, Germany, a cutting was taken from each seedling and grown as a flowering, single-stem plant for examination in autumn and winter. The cuttings used were grown shoot tips (short stem with 3-4 mature leaves) from the upper area of the plant, taken from branches emerging from the main stem higher than the place of the grafting. After plant No. 4747 had been chosen, more cuttings were taken from the original seedling and grafted on rootstocks of variety ‘Beckmanns Altrosa’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,336) in order to transmit the branching-causing agent into the clone. The branch causing agent is a Phytoplasma which is transmitted by grafting. With branched plants grown from cuttings of the grafted plants, another trial cultivation (horticultural examination) took place in autumn and winter 1996/97.
Horticultural examination initiated in autumn of 1996 and continuing thereafter has demonstrated that the combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for ‘Fisgala’ are firmly fixed and are retained through successive generations of asexual reproduction.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be basic characteristics of ‘Fisgala’ which in combination distinguish this Poinsettia as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Dark-red bract color;
2. Medium-sized ovate bracts, occasionally with weak lobes;
3. Dark-green foliage, moderately lobed;
4. Relatively early flowering response; and
5. Moderately vigorous growth, average height, upright plant habit during vegetative stage.
‘Fisgala’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary significantly with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity, and daylength without a change in genotype. The following observations, measurements and comparisons describe plants grown in Hillscheid, Germany, and Langley, British Columbia, Canada, under greenhouse conditions which approximate those generally used in commercial practice.
Of the many commercial varieties known to the inventor, the most similar in comparison to ‘Fisgala’ are the patented cultivars ‘Freedom Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,825) and ‘Fiscor’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,364). In comparison to ‘Freedom Red’, ‘Fisgala’ has a darker and more stable red bract color, which does not tend to fade at high temperatures. Bracts and leaves of ‘Fisgala’ are smaller in size than those of ‘Freedom Red’ and flowering response is a few days later than ‘Freedom Red’. In comparison to ‘Fiscor’, ‘Fisgala’ has slightly darker red-colored bracts, a taller and less wide plant habit, and earlier flowering response. The cultivars ‘Fisnova’, ‘Fismille’ and ‘Fisgala’ are compared below.
FISNOVA
FISMILLE
FISGALA
Bract color
medium to dark
Brilliant,
Dark red, often
red
medium red
more
Upper Surface
46 B
45 A
bluish than: 46 B
RHS
Lower Surface
46 B-C
46 B
46 B
RHS
Stem color
Light to
Medium green,
Medium green,
medium green,
Infusion of
137 C
137 B
137 B
anthocyanin
weak
weak
strong
Foliage, lobes
weak
almost no lobes
weak to medium
Growth/Plant
Medium vigor,
vigorous,
moderately
habit
rel. compact as a
medium to tall,
vigorous growth,
young plant,
upright plant
medium height,
develops later a
habit
V-shaped plant
more round plant
habit with
habit when given
uniformly
enough space so
developed
that all the
branches
branches may
develop fairly
evenly
*
No. of
8.5
6.9
7.5
branches
Begin of
8.5 weeks
7.5 weeks
8-8.5 weeks
flowering


REFERENCES:
patent: P.P. 9336 (1995-10-01), Beckmann
patent: 4724276 (1988-02-01), Ecke, Jr.
UPOV-ROM GTITM Computer Database 1000/02, GTI JOUVE Retrieval Software, citations for ‘Fisgala’, May 1999.

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