Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
2000-03-15
2001-11-27
Locker, Howard J. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012227
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as
Dendranthema grandiflora
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Yobutterfield.
The new Chrysanthemum is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Salinas, Calif. The objective of the breeding program is to create new potted Chrysanthemum cultivars with desirable inflorescence form and floret colors, good substance, and excellent postproduction longevity.
The new Chrysanthemum originated from a cross made by the Inventor in May, 1993, in Salinas, Calif., of a proprietary Chrysanthemum seedling selection identified as YB-6496 as the male, or pollen, parent with a proprietary Chrysanthemum seedling selection identified as YB-6370 as the female, or seed, parent. The new Chrysanthemum was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant within this population in March, 1994. The selection of this plant was based on its desirable inflorescence form and floret colors.
Asexual reproduction of the new Chrysanthemum by terminal cuttings harvested in a controlled environment in Salinas, Calif., has shown that the unique features of this new Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cultivar Yobutterfield 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 traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Yobutterfield’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Yobutterfield’ as a new and distinct Chrysanthemum:
1. Upright and uniformly mounded plant habit.
2. Freely branching, dense and full plants.
3. Strong dark green foliage.
4. Uniform flowering.
5. Early flowering, eight-week response time.
6. Very freely flowering; about seven or eight inflorescences per lateral stem.
7. Large daisy-type inflorescences that are about 8.2 cm in diameter.
8. Bright yellow-colored ray florets and darker yellow disc florets.
9. Excellent postproduction longevity with inflorescences and leaves maintaining good substance and color for about three to four weeks in an interior environment.
Compared to plants of the cultivar, Miramar, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,469, plants of the are different in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have smaller inflorescences than plants of the cultivar Miramar.
2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have a more attractive inflorescence form that plants of the cultivar Miramar.
3. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have broader ray florets than plants of the cultivar Miramar.
4. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower about one week earlier than plants of the cultivar Miramar.
5. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum produce much less or no pollen compared to plants of the cultivar Miramar.
6. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are more upright and not as outwardly spreading as plants of the cultivar Miramar.
Locker Howard J.
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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