Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
2004-01-26
2004-11-16
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Chrysanthemum
Plant Patent
active
PP015324
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
cultivar Festive Yoursula.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Chrysanthemum
plant, botanically known as
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
, commercially known as a garden-type
Chrysanthemum
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Festive Yoursula’.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Alva, Fla. The objective of the breeding program is to create new garden-type
Chrysanthemum
cultivars having inflorescences with desirable inflorescence forms, attractive floret colors and good garden performance.
The new
Chrysanthemum
is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of the
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
cultivar Yoursula, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,641. The new
Chrysanthemum
was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant from within a population of plants of the cultivar Yoursula in a controlled environment in Alva, Fla. in April, 2002. The selection of this plant was based on its desirable inflorescence form, attractive ray floret color and good garden performance.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal vegetative cuttings in a controlled environment in Alva, Fla. since June, 2002, 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 Festive Yoursula 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 ‘Festive Yoursula’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Festive Yoursula’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit; dense and full plants.
3. Uniform and freely flowering habit.
4. Small decorative-type inflorescences with elongated oblong-shaped ray florets.
5. Bronze-colored ray florets.
6. Natural season flowering in mid September in the Northern Hemisphere.
In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Alva, Fla., plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
differed from plants of the parent, the cultivar Yoursula, primarily in ray floret coloration as plants of the cultivar Yoursula had lavender-colored ray florets. In addition plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
flowered a couple of days later than plants of the cultivar Yoursula when grown under natural season conditions.
Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
differ primarily from plants of the cultivar Sunny Yoursula, disclosed in a U.S. Plant patent application filed concurrently, in ray floret coloration.
Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
can be compared to plants of the
Chrysanthemum
cultivar Robin, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,300. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Alva, Fla., plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
differed from plants of the cultivar Robin in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
were more rounded than plants of the cultivar Robin.
2. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
flowered five to seven days later than plants of the cultivar Robin when grown under natural season conditions.
3. Ray florets of plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
did not fade as quickly as ray florets of plants of the cultivar Robin.
Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
can also be compared to plants of the
Chrysanthemum
cultivar Orange Urano, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,019. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Alva, Fla., plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
differed from plants of the cultivar Orange Urano in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
were not as outwardly spreading as plants of the cultivar Orange Urano.
2. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
flowered about one week later than plants of the cultivar Orange Urano grown under natural season conditions.
3. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
had smaller inflorescences than plants of the cultivar Orange Urano.
Grunberg Anne Marie
Para Annette H
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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