Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
2000-04-28
2001-08-07
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012039
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Spathiphyllum hybrid plant, botanically known as Spathiphyllum, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Kalypso’.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned and controlled breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Merelbeke-Melsen, Belgium. The objective of the breeding program is to create early-flowering spathiphyllum cultivars with large rounded leaves. The new cultivar originated from a deliberate cross by the Inventor in 1997 of the Spathiphyllum cultivar ‘Stephanie’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,943, as the female or seed parent and the Spathiphyllum cultivar ‘Daniel’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,655, as the male or pollen parent. The cultivar ‘Kalypso’ was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Merelbeke-Melsen, Belgium.
Compared to plants of the female parent, the culitvar ‘Stephanie’, plants of the new Spathiphyllum are smaller, have more rounded leaves and are more tolerant to high temperatures. Compared to plants of the male parent, the cultivar ‘Daniel’, plants of the new Spathiphyllum are larger, faster growing, have broader leaves and larger spathes.
Asexual propagation of the new cultivar by tissue culture in a laboratory in Belgium has shown that the unique features of this new Spathiphyllum plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new Spathiphyllum has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity, fertilizer level and propagation procedures, without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Kalypso’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Kalypso’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Large upright plant habit.
2. Large, rounded, dark green, shiny leaves.
3. Rapid growth rate.
4. Freely flowering.
5. Large rounded white spathes that are positioned above and beyond the foliage on strong peduncles.
6. Freely flowering.
7. Long-lasting spathes.
Bell Kent L.
Campell Bruce R.
Milestone Agriculture Inc.
Whealy C. A.
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