Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
2002-08-31
2003-11-11
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
active
PP014294
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
cultivar Anastasia Pink.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
and referred to by the name ‘Anastasia Pink’.
The new Chrysanthemum was discovered and selected by the Inventor in a controlled environment in 's-Gravenzande, The Netherlands, as a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of the Chrysanthemum cultivar Anastasia, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,550. The new plant was discovered within a population of plants of the cultivar Anastasia and was selected on the basis of its unique pink-colored ray florets.
Asexual reproduction of the new Chrysanthemum by terminal cuttings harvested in 's-Gravenzande, The Netherlands since January 2001, has shown that the unique features of this new Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cultivar Anastasia Pink 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 ‘Anastasia Pink’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Anastasia Pink’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Large quilled spider double-type inflorescences with pink-colored ray florets; typically grown as a disbudded type with a single inflorescence per flowering stem.
2. Numerous ray florets and very few disc florets; disc florets typically inconspicuous.
3. Dark green-colored foliage.
4. Strong and upright flowering stems.
5. Low number of lateral branches which reduces the amount of disbudding required.
6. Short response time.
7. Excellent postproduction longevity.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are most similar to plants of the parent cultivar Anastasia. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in 's-Gravenzande, The Netherlands, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differed primarily from plants of the cultivar Anastasia in ray floret coloration as plants of the cultivar Anastasia had white-colored ray florets.
REFERENCES:
UPOV-ROM GTITM Computer Database 2002/03, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software, Citation for Chrysanthemum ‘Anastasia Pink’.
Campell Bruce R.
Deliflor Chrysanten B.V.
Hwu June
Whealy C. A.
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