U.S. patent number PP27,091 [Application Number 14/121,719] was granted by the patent office on 2016-08-23 for chrysanthemum plant named `fimmsunpur`.
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 |
PP27,091 |
Wain |
August 23, 2016 |
Chrysanthemum plant named `Fimmsunpur`
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named
`Fimmsunpur`, characterized by its 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-size decorative-type inflorescences with cerise pink-colored
ray florets; early season-flowering habit; 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: |
56684323 |
Appl.
No.: |
14/121,719 |
Filed: |
October 11, 2014 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/287 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20130101); A01H 6/1424 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20060101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/287,291,292 |
Primary Examiner: Hwu; June
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Whealy; C. A.
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant named `Fimmsunpur` as
illustrated and described.
Description
Botanical designation: Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium.
Cultivar denomination: `FIMMSUNPUR`.
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 plant and hereinafter
referred to by the name `Fimmsunpur`.
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 season-flowering garden Chrysanthemum plants with numerous
attractive inflorescences.
The new Chrysanthemum plant originated from a cross-pollination
made in January, 2010 by the Inventor in Fareham, Hampshire, United
Kingdom of a proprietary selection of
Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium identified as code number 83298, not
patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary
selection of Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium identified as code
number 83007, 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, 2010.
Asexual reproduction of the new Chrysanthemum plant by terminal
vegetative cuttings was first conducted in Fareham, Hampshire,
United Kingdom in December, 2010. Asexual reproduction by terminal
vegetative cuttings has shown that the unique features of this new
Chrysanthemum plant 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 combinations of 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 `Fimmsunpur`. These
characteristics in combination distinguish `Fimmsunpur` as a new
and distinct garden Chrysanthemum plant: 1. 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-size decorative-type inflorescences with
cerise pink-colored ray florets. 5. Early season-flowering habit;
grown under natural season conditions, plants flower in mid to late
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 have slightly
larger inflorescences than plants of the female parent selection.
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. Grown under natural season conditions, plants
of the new Chrysanthemum flower earlier than plants of the male
parent selection. 2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum and the male
parent selection differ in ray floret color as plants of the male
parent selection have pink-colored ray florets.
Plants of the new Chrysanthemum can be compared to plants of
Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium `Dark Pamplona Jogger`, disclosed in
U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,956. In side-by-side comparisons conducted
in Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom, plants of the new
Chrysanthemum differed from plants of `Dark Pamplona Jogger` in the
following characteristics: 1. Grown under natural season
conditions, plants of the new Chrysanthemum flowered earlier than
plants of `Dark Pamplona Jogger`. 2. Plants of the new
Chrysanthemum and `Dark Pamplona Jogger` differed in ray floret
color as plants of `Dark Pamplona Jogger` had light purple-colored
ray florets.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPH
The accompanying photograph illustrates the overall appearance of
the new Chrysanthemum plant 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 plant.
The photograph comprises a top perspective view of a typical
flowering plant of `Fimmsunpur` grown in a 19-cm container during
the summer and autumn in a glass-covered greenhouse in De Lier, The
Netherlands. Plants were grown under natural season conditions.
Plants were 3.5 months old when the photograph was taken.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The following observations and measurements describe plants grown
during the winter in 14-cm containers in a glass-covered greenhouse
in Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom and under cultural practices
typical of commercial garden Chrysanthemum production. During the
production of the plants, day and night temperatures ranged from
17.degree. C. to 21.degree. C. and light levels averaged 6,000 lux.
Plants were grown under long day/short night conditions for six
weeks and then grown under short day/long night conditions to
induce inflorescence initiation and development. Plants were twelve
weeks old when the detailed description was 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 `Fimmsunpur`.
Parentage: Female, or seed, parent.--Proprietary selection of
Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium identified as code number 83298, not
patented. Male, or pollen, parent.--Proprietary selection of
Chrysanthemum.times.morifolium identified as code number 83007, not
patented. Propagation: Type.--Terminal vegetative cuttings. Time to
initiate roots, summer.--About ten days at temperatures about
21.degree. C. Time to initiate roots, winter.--About twelve days at
temperatures about 21.degree. C. Time to produce a rooted young
plant, summer.--About three weeks at temperatures about 21.degree.
C. Time to produce a rooted young plant, winter.--About four weeks
at temperatures about 21.degree. C. Root description.--Fine,
fibrous; light brown in color. Rooting habit.--Freely branching;
sparse to medium density. Plant description: Plant and growth
habit.--Herbaceous decorative-type garden Chrysanthemum; 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; compact to moderately
vigorous growth habit. Plant height.--About 19 cm. Plant
width.--About 23 cm. Branching habit.--Freely branching habit;
about 13 lateral branches develop after removal of terminal apex
(pinching). Lateral branches.--Length: About 10.5 cm. Diameter:
About 3 mm. Internode length: About 5 mm. Strength: Strong. Aspect:
About 80.degree. from vertical. Texture: Fine pubescence. Color:
Close to 148B. Leaf description: Arrangement.--Alternate, simple.
Length.--About 4 cm. Width.--About 3.4 cm. Shape.--Palmately-lobed;
roughly ovate with three to five lobes. Apex.--Broadly mucronate to
acuminate. Base.--Attenuate to truncate. Margin.--Palmately lobed,
sinuses between lateral lobes mostly divergent; slightly dentate.
Texture, upper surface.--Fine pubescence; slightly waxy. Texture,
lower surface.--Fine pubescence; veins prominent.
Color.--Developing leaves, upper surface: Close to 137B. Developing
leaves, lower surface: Close to 146B. Fully expanded leaves, upper
surface: Close to 137A; venation, close to 146B. Fully expanded
leaves, lower surface: Close to 147C; venation, close to 147C.
Petioles.--Length: About 1.3 cm. Diameter: About 2 mm. Texture,
upper and lower surfaces: Fine pubescence. Color, upper surface:
Close to 146B. Color, lower surface: Close to 147C. Inflorescence
description: Form and flowering habit.--Decorative-type
inflorescence form with ligulate to slightly spatulate-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 91 inflorescences
developing per plant. Fragrance.--Mildly fragrant; pungent,
herbaceous. Flowering response.--Early season-flowering habit,
plants exposed to natural season conditions begin flowering in mid
to late August in the United Kingdom. Inflorescence
longevity.--Inflorescences maintain good color and substance for
about three to five weeks on the plant; inflorescences persistent.
Inflorescence buds.--Height: About 5 mm. Diameter: About 7 mm.
Shape: Oblate. Color: Close to 138B. Inflorescence diameter.--About
4.5 cm. Inflorescence height.--About 2 cm. Receptacles.--Height:
About 2 mm. Diameter: About 3 mm. Shape: Conical. Color: Close to
144D. Ray florets.--Orientation: Initially upright, then about
45.degree. from vertical. Length: About 2.5 cm. Width: About 6 mm.
Shape: Ligulate to slightly spatulate. Apex: Emarginate and
slightly dentate. Base: Fused into a tube. Margin: Entire. Texture,
upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Number of ray florets
per inflorescence: About 163 arranged in about eight whorls. Color:
When opening, upper surface: Close to 59B. When opening, lower
surface: Close to 185C. Fully opened, upper surface: Close to 60C;
color becoming closer to 60D with development. Fully opened, lower
surface: Close to 186C; color becoming closer to 186D with
development. Disc florets.--Disc floret development has not been
observed on plants of the new Chrysanthemum. Phyllaries.--Number of
phyllaries per inflorescence: About 24 arranged in about four
whorls. Length: About 6 mm. Width: About 2 mm. Shape: Lanceolate.
Apex: Obtuse. Base: Obtuse, fused. Margin: Entire. Texture, upper
surface: Smooth, glabrous; waxy. Texture, lower surface: Fine
pubescence; waxy. Color, upper surface: Close to 138B. Color, lower
surface: Close to 138C. Peduncles.--Length, terminal peduncle:
About 3.2 cm. Diameter, terminal peduncle: About 2 mm. Angle: About
45.degree. from vertical. Strength: Moderately strong; flexible.
Texture: Fine pubescence. Color: Close to 134B. Reproductive
organs.--Androecium: None observed. Gynoecium: Pistil length: About
4 mm. Stigma shape: Bi-parted. Stigma color: Close to 8B. Style
length: About 3 mm. Style color: Close to 160C. Ovary color: Close
to 157B. 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. 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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