Plants – Shrub or vine – Lantana
Plant Patent
2002-12-26
2004-03-23
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Lantana
Plant Patent
active
PP014634
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of genus and species of plant claimed:
Lantana camara.
Variety denomination: ‘Balucgold’.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct Lantana plant, botanically known as
Lantana camara,
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Balucgold’.
The new cultivar was developed by the inventor in a controlled breeding program during 1999, at Arroyo Grande, Calif. The objective of the breeding program was the development of Lantana cultivars with a well-branched, compact habit, continuous flowering and dark green foliage.
The female (seed) parent of ‘Balucgold’ was the commercially available Lantana variety ‘Simon Yellow’ (not patented), characterized by its yellow flowers and upright growth habit. The male (pollen) parent of ‘Balucgold’ was the commercially available Lantana variety ‘Denholm White’ (not patented), which exhibits a spreading habit and white flowers. ‘Balucgold’ was selected in May 2000 as a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the above stated cross and was initially designated ‘51-1’.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar at Arroyo Grande, Calif. and West Chicago, Ill. was carried out by the use of terminal stem cuttings has demonstrated that the new Lantana reproduces true to type with the characteristics of the new cultivar as herein described are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
It was found that the cultivar of the present invention:
(a) exhibits dark yellow colored flowers,
(b) forms dark green foliage, and
(c) exhibits an upright mounded growth habit.
The new cultivar of the present invention can be compared to its female parent, the commercially available Lantana variety, ‘Simon Yellow’. In side-by-side comparison, plants of the new cultivar differ from plants of ‘Simon Yellow’. It is found that the new cultivar has smaller leaves and flowers of a lighter yellow color than ‘Simon Yellow’.
Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural Co.
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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