U.S. patent number PP25,252 [Application Number 13/815,198] was granted by the patent office on 2015-01-27 for chrysanthemum plant named `fimmsungol`.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Fides B.V.. The grantee listed for this patent is Peter Wain. Invention is credited to Peter Wain.
United States Patent |
PP25,252 |
Wain |
January 27, 2015 |
Chrysanthemum plant named `Fimmsungol`
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named
`Fimmsungol`, characterized by its compact, upright to outwardly
spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit; freely branching
habit; dense and full plant habit; uniform and freely flowering
habit; medium to large decorative inflorescences with bright
yellow-colored ray florets; mid-August flowering response under
natural season conditions; and good garden performance.
Inventors: |
Wain; Peter (Locks Heath,
GB) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Wain; Peter |
Locks Heath |
N/A |
GB |
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Assignee: |
Fides B.V. (De Lier,
NL)
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Family
ID: |
52350873 |
Appl.
No.: |
13/815,198 |
Filed: |
February 8, 2013 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/289 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/1424 (20180501); A01H 5/02 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/00 (20060101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/289 |
Primary Examiner: Para; Annette
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Whealy; C. A.
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant named `Fimmsungol` as
illustrated and described.
Description
Botanical designation: Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium.
Cultivar denomination: `FIMMSUNGOL`.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct Chrysanthemum
plant, botanically known as Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium,
commercially grown as a garden Chrysanthemum and hereinafter
referred to by the name `Fimmsungol`.
The new Chrysanthemum plant is a product of a planned breeding
program conducted by the Inventor in Fareham, Hampshire, United
Kingdom. The objective of the breeding program is to create new
early-flowering garden Chrysanthemum plants with numerous
attractive inflorescences.
The new Chrysanthemum plant originated from a cross-pollination
made in January, 2007 by the Inventor in Fareham, Hampshire, United
Kingdom of a proprietary selection of
Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium identified as code number 3030, not
patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary
selection of Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium identified as code
number 3137, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new
Chrysanthemum plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as
a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the stated
cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in
Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom in September, 2007.
Asexual reproduction of the new Chrysanthemum by terminal
vegetative cuttings was first conducted in Fareham, Hampshire,
United Kingdom in December, 2007. Asexual reproduction by terminal
vegetative cuttings has shown that the unique features of this new
Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive
generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have not been observed under all
possible environmental conditions and cultural practices. The
phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environmental
conditions 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 `Fimmsungol`. These
characteristics in combination distinguish `Fimmsungol` as a new
and distinct Chrysanthemum plant: 1. Compact, upright to outwardly
spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit. 2. Freely branching
habit; dense and full plant habit. 3. Uniform and freely flowering
habit. 4. Medium to large decorative inflorescences with bright
yellow-colored ray florets. 5. Plants flower under natural season
conditions during the third week of August in the United Kingdom.
6. Good garden performance.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum can be compared to plants of the
female parent selection. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum differ
from plants of the female parent selection, in the following
characteristics: 1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flower about
one month earlier than plants of the female parent selection under
natural season conditions. 2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum and
the female parent selection differ in ray floret color as plants of
the female parent selection have pink-colored ray florets.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum can be compared to plants of the
male parent selection. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum differ from
plants of the male parent selection, in the following
characteristics: 1. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have larger
inflorescences than plants of the male parent selection. 2. Plants
of the new Chrysanthemum flower later than plants of the male
parent selection under natural season conditions.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum can be compared to plants of
Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium `Conaco Yellow`, not patented. In
side-by-side comparisons conducted in Fareham, Hampshire, United
Kingdom, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differed from plants of
`Conaco Yellow` in the following characteristics: 1. Plants of the
new Chrysanthemum had lighter green-colored leaves than plants of
`Conaco Yellow`. 2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum flowered about
one month earlier than plants of `Conaco Yellow` under natural
season conditions.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPH
The accompanying photograph illustrates the overall appearance of
the new Chrysanthemum showing the colors as true as it is
reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this
type. Colors in the photograph may differ slightly from the color
values cited in the detailed botanical description which accurately
describe the colors of the new Chrysanthemum. The photograph
comprises a top perspective view of a typical flowering plant of
`Fimmsungol` grown in a container.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The aforementioned photograph and following observations and
measurements describe plants grown during the late summer and early
autumn in 19-cm containers in an outdoor nursery in Fareham,
Hampshire, United Kingdom and under cultural practices typical of
commercial garden Chrysanthemum production. During the production
of the plants, day temperatures ranged from 10.degree. C. to
25.degree. C., night temperatures ranged from 5.degree. C. to
15.degree. C. and light levels ranged from 400 to 2,500 joules.
Plants were pinched one time and were about 14 weeks old when the
photograph and detailed description were taken. In the following
description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural
Society Colour Chart, Fifth Edition, except where general terms of
ordinary dictionary significance are used. Botanical
classification: Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium `Fimmsungol`.
Parentage: Female, or seed, parent.--Proprietary selection of
Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium identified as code number 3030, not
patented. Male, or pollen, parent.--Proprietary selection of
Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium identified as code number 3137, not
patented. Propagation: Type.--Terminal vegetative cuttings. Time to
initiate roots, summer.--About ten days at temperatures of about
21.degree. C. Time to initiate roots, winter.--About twelve days at
temperatures of about 21.degree. C. Time to produce a rooted young
plant, summer.--About three weeks at temperatures of about
21.degree. C. Time to produce a rooted young plant, winter.--About
four weeks at temperatures of about 21.degree. C. Root
description.--Fine, fibrous; light brown to white in color. Rooting
habit.--Freely branching; medium density to sparse. Plant
description: Plant and growth habit.--Herbaceous decorative-type
garden Chrysanthemum; compact with stems upright to outwardly
spreading giving a uniformly mounded appearance to the plant;
numerous lateral branches and relatively short internodes, dense
and full plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit. Plant
height.--About 20 cm. Plant width.--About 40 cm. Branching
habit.--Freely branching habit, about nine lateral branches develop
after removal of terminal apex (pinching); each primary lateral
with numerous secondary laterals. Lateral branches.--Length: About
17 cm. Diameter: About 5 mm. Internode length: About 1 cm.
Strength: Strong, flexible. Aspect: About 75.degree. from stem.
Texture: Fine pubescence. Color: Close to 146D.
Leaves.--Arrangement: Alternate, simple. Length: About 4 cm. Width:
About 3 cm. Shape: Palmately-lobed; roughly ovate. Apex: Acute.
Base: Obtuse with truncate tendencies. Margin: Palmately lobed,
sinuses between lateral lobes parallel to divergent; dentate.
Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Fine pubescence; veins prominent
on lower surface. Color: Developing leaves, upper surface: Close to
144A. Developing leaves, lower surface: Close to 146C. Fully
expanded leaves, upper surface: Close to 146A; venation, close to
144B. Fully expanded leaves, lower surface: Close to 147B;
venation, close to 144B. Petiole: Length: About 1 cm. Diameter:
About 2 mm. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Fine pubescence.
Color, upper surface: Close to 146A. Color, lower surface: Close to
147B. Inflorescence description: Form and flowering
habit.--Decorative inflorescence form with ligulate-shaped ray
florets; inflorescences borne on terminals above and beyond the
foliar plane; disc and ray florets arranged acropetally on a
capitulum; freely flowering habit with about 48 inflorescences
developing per lateral branch and about 430 inflorescences
developing per plant. Fragrance.--Slightly fragrant; pungent,
herbaceous. Flowering response.--Early flowering habit, plants
exposed to natural season conditions begin flowering the third week
of August in the United Kingdom; with photoinductive conditions,
response time is about 31 days. Inflorescence
longevity.--Inflorescences maintain good color and substance for
about three to five weeks on the plant; inflorescences persistent.
Inflorescence buds.--Height: About 8 mm. Diameter: About 1 cm.
Shape: Flattened globular. Color: Close to 144A. Inflorescence
height.--About 2 cm. Inflorescence diameter.--About 4 cm.
Receptacles.--Height: About 3 mm. Diameter: About 4 mm. Shape:
Hemispherical, slightly pointed. Color: Close to 145C. Ray
florets.--Orientation: Initially upright, then about 75.degree.
from vertical. Length: About 2 cm. Width: About 5 mm. Shape:
Ligulate. Apex: Mucronate. Base: Fused into a short tube. Margin:
Entire. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Number
of ray florets per inflorescence: About 110 arranged in about ten
whorls. Color: When opening, upper surface: Close to 14A. When
opening, lower surface: Close to 12B. Fully opened, upper surface:
Close to 9A; color becoming closer to 9B with development. Fully
opened, lower surface: Close to 9C; color does not change with
development. Disc florets.--Disc floret development has not been
observed on plants of the new Chrysanthemum. Phyllaries.--Number of
phyllaries per inflorescence: About 25 arranged in about three to
four whorls. Length: About 5 mm. Width: About 2 mm. Shape:
Ligulate. Apex: Obtuse. Base: Truncate, fused. Margin: Entire.
Texture, upper surface: Smooth, glabrous. Texture, lower surface:
Fine pubescence. Color, upper surface: Close to 138C. Color, lower
surface: Close to 138A. Peduncles.--Length, terminal peduncle:
About 6 cm. Diameter, terminal peduncle: About 2 mm. Angle: Erect
to about 30.degree. from vertical. Strength: Strong. Texture: Fine
pubescence, dense. Color: Close to 139C. Reproductive
organs.--Androecium: None observed. Gynoecium: Pistil length: About
5 mm. Stigma shape: Bi-parted. Stigma color: Close to 12B. Style
length: About 2 mm. Style color: Close to 1B. Ovary color: Close to
157C. Seeds and fruits.--Seed and fruit production has not been
observed on plants of the new Chrysanthemum. Disease & pest
resistance: Resistance to pathogens and pests common to
Chrysanthemum plants has not been observed on plants of the new
Chrysanthemum grown under commercial conditions. Garden
performance: Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have demonstrated good
garden performance and to tolerate temperatures from about
0.degree. C. to about 35.degree. C.
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