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
PP015318
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
cultivar Yoalexis.
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 ‘Yoalexis’.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Salinas, Calif. and 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
originated from a cross-pollination made in December, 2000 in Salinas, Calif., of a proprietary
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
seedling selection identified as code number 96-L220, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary
Chrysanthemum×morifolium
seedling selection identified as code number 98-M329, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new
Chrysanthemum
was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination grown in a controlled environment in Alva, Fla. in October, 2001. 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 December, 2001, 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 Yoalexis 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 ‘Yoalexis’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Yoalexis’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright and somewhat outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit; dense and full plants.
3. Uniform and freely flowering habit.
4. Decorative-type inflorescences with elongated oblong-shaped ray florets.
5. White-colored ray florets.
6. Natural season flowering in early October in the Northern Hemisphere.
In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Alva, Fla., plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
differed from plants of the female parent, the proprietary seedling selection identified as code number 96-L220, in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
were more rounded and flowered more uniformly than plants of the female parent selection.
2. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
and the female parent selection differed in ray floret coloration as plants of the female parent selection had white and pink-colored ray florets.
In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Alva, Fla., plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
differed from plants of the male parent, the proprietary seedling selection identified as code number 98-M329, in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
were larger than plants of the male parent selection.
2. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
had a more uniform growth habit than plants of the male parent selection.
3. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
flowered more uniformly than plants of the male parent selection.
4. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
flowered about two to three weeks later than plants of the male parent selection.
5. Inflorescences of plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
had fewer disc florets than inflorescences of plants of the male parent selection.
Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
can be compared to plants of the
Chrysanthemum
cultivar Linda, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,294. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Alva, Fla., plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
differed from plants of the cultivar Linda in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
were larger and more rounded than plants of the cultivar Linda.
2. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
flowered more uniformly than plants of the cultivar Linda.
3. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
flowered about one week later than plants of the cultivar Linda under natural season conditions.
Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
can also be compared to plants of the
Chrysanthemum
cultivar Terano, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Alva, Fla., plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
differed from plants of the cultivar Terano in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
were larger than plants of the cultivar Terano.
2. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
had slightly larger inflorescences than plants of the cultivar Terano.
3. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum
flowered about one week earlier than plants of the cultivar Terano when grown under natural season conditions.
Grunberg Anne Marie
Para Annette H
Whealy C. A.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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