Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-06-30
2001-05-22
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011885
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Poinsettia plant, botanically known as
Euphorbia pulcherrima
Willd., and herinafter referred to by the name ‘Eckabdul’.
The new Poinsettia is a naturally-occurring mutation of the commercial
Euphorbia pulcherrima
Willd. cultivar ‘Peterstar Marble’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,877. The new Poinsettia was selected by the Inventor in a greenhouse in Encinitas, Calif., in 1997. The objective of the Inventor's Poinsettia development program is to create new Poinsettia cultivars having interesting bract and leaf display, desirable bract and foliage color and form, strong and freely branching stems and good post-production longevity.
Asexual reproduction of the new Poinsettia by terminal cuttings taken at Encinitas, Calif., has shown that the unique features of this new Poinsettia are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Eckabdul’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Eckabdul’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Dark pink and very pale yellow variegated bracts.
2. Green, light green and very light yellow variegated leaves.
3. Compact, upright and spreading plant habit.
4. Very freely branching habit.
5. Excellent postproduction longevity.
In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Encinitas, Calif., plants of the new Poinsettia differed from plants of the parent cultivar, ‘Peterstar Marble’, primarily in leaf coloration as leaves of plants of ‘Peterstar Marble’ are not variegated. Additionally plants of the new Poinsettia and ‘Peterstar Marble’ have been noted to be different in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Poinsettia are more uniform in plant shape than plants of ‘Peterstar Marble’.
2. Plants of the new Poinsettia are more compact than plants of ‘Peterstar Marble’.
3. Plants of the new Poinsettia have larger and more rounded inflorescences than plants of ‘Peterstar Marble’.
4. Flower bracts of plants of the new Poinsettia are brighter and clearer pink and have lighter yellow margins than flower bracts of plants of ‘Peterstar Marble’.
5. Plants of the new Poinsettia flower later than plants of the cultivar ‘Peterstar Marble’.
REFERENCES:
UPOV-ROM GTITM Computer Database 2000/04, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software, citation for ‘Eckabdul’, Mar. 1998.
Campell Bruce R.
Gruberg Anne Marie
Paul Ecke Ranch
Whealy C. A.
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