Salvia plant named ‘Sunsarupin’

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2003-11-18

2004-10-12

Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)

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PP015215

ABSTRACT:

Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Salvia jamensis
cultivar Sunsarupin.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Salvia
plant, botanically known as
Salvia jamensis,
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Sunsarupin’.
The new
Salvia
is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventors in Yokaichi-shi, Shiga, Japan. The objective of the breeding program was to create new compact
Salvia
cultivars with bushy growth habit and numerous flowers with attractive coloration.
The new
Salvia
originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventors in April, 1998 of a proprietary
Salvia
selection identified as code number 97S34-2, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with the
Salvia jamensis
cultivar La Luna, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new
Salvia
was discovered and selected by the Inventors as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination grown in a controlled environment in Yokaichi-shi, Shiga, Japan.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by cuttings and divisions taken at Yokaichi-shi, Shiga, Japan, since September, 2000, has shown that the unique features of this new
Salvia
are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Sunsarupin 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 ‘Sunsarupin’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Sunsarupin’ as a new and distinct
Salvia
cultivar:
1. Upright and relatively compact plant habit.
2. Freely basal branching, dense and bushy plant form.
3. Freely flowering habit.
4. Dark pink-colored flowers.
5. Tolerant to high and low temperatures.
Plants of the new
Salvia
differ from plants of the parents primarily in flower color as plants of the female parent selection have red purple-colored flowers and plants of the male parent, the cultivar La Luna, have yellow green-colored flowers.
Plants of the new
Salvia
differ from plants of the
Salvia
cultivars Sunsaruki, U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/716,055, and Sunsaruoro, U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/716,056 primarily in flower color.
Plants of the new
Salvia
can be compared to plants of the
Salvia
cultivar Orchestra Red, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Yokaichi-shi, Shiga, Japan, plants of the new
Salvia
differed from plants of the cultivar Orchestra Red in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Salvia
were more compact than plants of the cultivar Orchestra Red.
2. Plants of the new
Salvia
had shorter internodes and were bushier than plants of the cultivar Orchestra Red.
3. Plants of the new
Salvia
had shorter leaves than plants of the cultivar Orchestra Red.
4. Plants of the new
Salvia
had larger flowers than plants of the cultivar Orchestra Red.
5. Plants of the new
Salvia
had more flowers per lateral stem than plants of the cultivar Orchestra Red.
6. Plants of the new
Salvia
and the cultivar Orchestra Red differed in flower color as plants of the cultivar Orchestra Red has red-colored flowers.
7. Plants of the new
Salvia
were tolerant to lower temperatures than plants of the cultivar Orchestra Red.

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