Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2001-12-14
2003-02-25
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP013605
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Portulaca grandiflora
cultivar Cindy.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Portulaca plant, botanically known as
Portulaca grandiflora
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Cindy’.
The new Portulaca is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Naaldwijk, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program is to create new Portulacas with interesting flower forms and flower colors.
The new Portulaca is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of an unnamed selection of
Portulaca grandiflora
, not patented, that was discovered and selected by the Inventor during the summer of 1999 in a controlled environment in Naaldwijk, The Netherlands, on the basis of its yellow and orange bi-colored double flowers.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Naaldwijk, The Netherlands since 1999, has shown that the unique features of this new Portulaca are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Cindy have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment and culture such as temperature, light intensity, and daylength without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Cindy’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Cindy’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Outwardly spreading and trailing plant habit.
2. Freely branching growth habit, dense and full plants.
3. Relatively rapid growth rate.
4. Double flower form.
5. Yellow and orange bi-colored flowers.
In addition to flower coloration, plants of the new Portulaca differ from plants of the parent selection and other Portulaca cultivars known to the Inventor in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Portulaca are not as compact as plants of the parent selection and other known cultivars of Portulaca.
2. Plants of the new Portulaca have a more rapid growth rate than plants of the parent selection and other known cultivars of Portulaca.
3. Plants of the new Portulaca have double flowers whereas plants of the parent selection and other known cultivars of Portulaca have single flowers.
Plants of the new Portulaca differ from plants of the cultivar Sleeping Beauty, U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/016,878 filed concurrently, and the cultivar Snow White, U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/016,879 filed concurrently, primarily in flower coloration.
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