Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
2000-06-12
2001-09-18
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012099
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Scaevola plant, botanically known as
Scaevola aemula
and referred to by the cultivar name Brillant.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Sudlohn-Oeding, Germany. The new Scaevola originated from a cross of the Scaevola cultivar Fancy, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,867, as the female, or seed, parent with an unidentified selection of
Scaevola aemula
, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Scaevola was selected by the Inventor in 1998 on the basis of its compact plant habit.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Sudlohn-Oeding, Germany, has shown that the unique features of this new Scaevola are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new cultivar 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.
The following characteristics have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the basic characteristics of ‘Brillant’ which distinguish ‘Brillant’ as a new and distinct cultivar.
1. Spreading, cascading and uniformly rounded plant habit.
2. Compact plants with short internodes, dense and bushy plant form.
3. Very freely branching plant habit.
4. Vigrorous growth habit.
5. Very floriferous with numerous blue purple fan-shaped flowers.
Plants of the new Scaevola are most similar to the female parent, the cultivar Fancy. However in side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Sudlohn-Oeding, Germany, plants of the new Scaevola and the cultivar Fancy differ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Scaevola are more compact and have shorter lateral branches than plants of the cultivar Fancy.
2. Plants of the new Scaevola are more freely branching than plants of the cultivar Fancy.
3. Plants of the new Scaevola have shorter internodes than plants of the cultivar Fancy.
4. Plants of the new Scaevola have more flowers per centimeter of lateral stem than plants of the cultivar Fancy.
5. Petal of the new Scaevola are not white at the base whereas petals of the cultivar Fancy are white at the base forming a white band.
Campell Bruce R.
Gartenbau und Spezialkulturen Westhoff GbR
Hwu June
Whealy C. A.
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