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USPP10212P
USPP10212P US08/731,781 US73178196V US10212P US PP10212 P USPP10212 P US PP10212P US 73178196 V US73178196 V US 73178196V US 10212 P US10212 P US 10212P
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  • the present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as Dendranthema grandifiora and referred to by the cultivar name Blue Jay.
  • the new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the inventor in Chichester, West Wales, United Kingdom.
  • the objective of the breeding program was to create new Chrysanthemum cultivars having desirable inflorescence colors and good garden performance.
  • the new cultivar originated from a cross made by the inventor of the cultivar Lynn (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,171) as the female, or seed, parent with the proprietary selection 10/GM/94 as the male, or pollen, parent.
  • the new Chrysanthemum was discovered and selected by the inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Chichester, West Wales, United Kingdom.
  • the cultivar Blue Jay 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.
  • plants of the new Chrysanthemum are more vigorous, more upright, and flower later than plants of the female parent, the Chrysanthemum cultivar Lynn. Additionally, the ray floret color of the new Chrysanthemum is darker than the ray floret color of the cultivar Lynn. In the same comparisons, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differed from the male parent in ray floret color and inflorescence form as the selection 10/GM/94 has yellow ray florets and a daisy inflorescence form. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum can be compared to the cultivar Debonair (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,324). However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Oxnard, Calif. under commercial practice, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differed from plants of the cultivar Debonair in the following characteristics:
  • Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are more vigorous and denser than plants of the cultivar Debonair.
  • Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have longer peduncles than plants of the cultivar Debonair.
  • the first photograph comprises a top perspective view of a typical flowering 16.5-cm container of ⁇ Blue Jay ⁇ with one cutting in the container.
  • the second photograph comprises a close-up view of five leaves at different stages of development, an opening inflorescence and a fully opened inflorescence. Foliage and floret colors in the photographs may appear different from the actual colors due to light reflectance.
  • plants After sticking unrooted cuttings of the new cultivar, plants received 4 weeks of long day/short nights followed by short day/long nights until flowering. Measurements and numerical values represent ranges or averages for six typical flowering plants.
  • Botanical classification Dendranthema grandiflora cultivar Blue Jay.
  • Type.--Terminal tip cuttings
  • Rooting habit --Fine, fibrous and well-branched.
  • Lateral branch length --about 20 cm.
  • Leaf arrangement Alternate.
  • Leaf size, fully expanded Length: About 5 cm. Width: About 4 cm.
  • Leaf apex Rounded, slightly apiculate.
  • Leaf base Acute to attenuate.
  • Leaf margin Palmately lobed.
  • Leaf texture Abaxial and adaxial surfaces slightly pubescent, smooth and dull. Veins prominent on abaxial surface.
  • Petiole length About 2 cm.
  • Color Young foliage adaxial surface: 137C.
  • Petiole 147C.
  • Opening inflorescences --Bud shape: Flattened.
  • Bud size Length: About 7 mm. Width: About 1 cm.
  • Bud color 70A.
  • Ray florets.--Shape Spatulate. Size: Length: About 1.8 cm. Width: About 6 mm. Apex: Rounded, emarginate. Base: Acute. Margin: Entire. Texture: Satiny, smooth and glabrous. Aspect: Flat. Number of ray florets per inflorescence: About 156. Color: When opening, adaxial surface: 70B. When opening, abaxial surface: 70D. Mature, adaxial surface: 77C. Mature, abaxial surface: 75C. Fading to: 75B.
  • Disc florets.--Shape Tubular. Size: Length: About 4 mm. Width: About 1 mm. Number of disc florets per inflorescence: About 28. Color: Immature: 6A. Mature: 6A.

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A distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named `Blue Jay`, characterized by its vigorous and upright growth habit; freely branching plant habit; decorative-type inflorescences; dark lavender ray florets; numerous inflorescences per plant; and good garden performance.

Description

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as Dendranthema grandifiora and referred to by the cultivar name Blue Jay.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the inventor in Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom. The objective of the breeding program was to create new Chrysanthemum cultivars having desirable inflorescence colors and good garden performance.
The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the inventor of the cultivar Lynn (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,171) as the female, or seed, parent with the proprietary selection 10/GM/94 as the male, or pollen, parent.
The new Chrysanthemum was discovered and selected by the inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom, has shown that the unique features of this new Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of `Blue Jay`. These characteristics in combination distinguish `Blue Jay` as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Vigorous and upright growth habit.
2. Freely branching plant habit.
3. Decorative-type inflorescences.
4. When opening, ray florets are dark magenta; when opened, ray florets are dark lavender.
5. Numerous inflorescences per plant.
6. Numerous ray florets per inflorescence.
7. Good garden performance.
The cultivar Blue Jay 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.
In side-by-side comparisons in Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom, under commercial practice, plants of the new Chrysanthemum are more vigorous, more upright, and flower later than plants of the female parent, the Chrysanthemum cultivar Lynn. Additionally, the ray floret color of the new Chrysanthemum is darker than the ray floret color of the cultivar Lynn. In the same comparisons, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differed from the male parent in ray floret color and inflorescence form as the selection 10/GM/94 has yellow ray florets and a daisy inflorescence form. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum can be compared to the cultivar Debonair (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,324). However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Oxnard, Calif. under commercial practice, plants of the new Chrysanthemum differed from plants of the cultivar Debonair in the following characteristics:
1. When opening, plants of the new Chrysanthemum have darker ray floret color than plants of the cultivar Debonair.
2. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum are more vigorous and denser than plants of the cultivar Debonair.
3. Leaves of plants of the new Chrysanthemum have deeper sinuses than leaves of plants of the cultivar Debonair.
4. Plants of the new Chrysanthemum have longer peduncles than plants of the cultivar Debonair.
A detailed comparison of plants of the new Chrysanthemum and the cultivar Debonair appears in Chart A at the end of the specification.
The accompanying colored photographs illustrate the overall appearance of the new cultivar, showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type.
The first photograph comprises a top perspective view of a typical flowering 16.5-cm container of `Blue Jay` with one cutting in the container.
The second photograph comprises a close-up view of five leaves at different stages of development, an opening inflorescence and a fully opened inflorescence. Foliage and floret colors in the photographs may appear different from the actual colors due to light reflectance.
In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used. The following observations and measurements describe plants grown in Oxnard, Calif. under commercial practice in a glass-covered greenhouse with average night temperatures of 18C, average day temperatures of 30C, and light levels of 2,000 (cloudy conditions) to 9,000 (sunny conditions) footcandles.
After sticking unrooted cuttings of the new cultivar, plants received 4 weeks of long day/short nights followed by short day/long nights until flowering. Measurements and numerical values represent ranges or averages for six typical flowering plants.
Botanical classification: Dendranthema grandiflora cultivar Blue Jay.
Commercial classification:
Garden chrysanthemum.
Parentage:
Female, or seed, parent.--Dendranthema grandifiora cultivar Lynn (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,171).
Male or pollen, parent.--Dendranthema grandiflora proprietary selection 10/GM/94.
Propagation:
Type.--Terminal tip cuttings.
Time to rooting.--10 to 12 days with soil temperatures of 20C.
Rooting habit.--Fine, fibrous and well-branched.
Plant description:
Appearance.--Perennial herbaceous garden plant. Vigorous, stems upright, uniform habit and freely branching.
Plant height.--About 22 cm.
Lateral branch length.--about 20 cm.
Quantity of lateral branches after removal of apical meristem.About 4.
Stem color.--146C.
Foliage description.--Number of leaves per plant: About 60. Number of leaves per lateral branch: About 15. Leaf arrangement: Alternate. Leaf size, fully expanded: Length: About 5 cm. Width: About 4 cm. Leaf apex: Rounded, slightly apiculate. Leaf base: Acute to attenuate. Leaf margin: Palmately lobed. Leaf texture: Abaxial and adaxial surfaces slightly pubescent, smooth and dull. Veins prominent on abaxial surface. Petiole length: About 2 cm. Color: Young foliage adaxial surface: 137C. Young foliage abaxial surface: 137D. Fully expanded foliage adaxial surface: 147A. Fully expanded foliage abaxial surface: 147B. Venation adaxial surface: 147C. Venation abaxial surface: 147B. Petiole: 147C.
Flowering description:
Appearance.--Decorative inflorescence form. Inflorescences borne on terminals above foliage, arising from leaf axils. Disc and ray florets arranged acropetally on a fiat capitulum.
Flowering response.--Under natural conditions, plants flower in the autumn. At other times of the year, inflorescence initiation and development can be induced under short day/long night conditions (at least 13.5 hours of darkness). Plants exposed to about 4 weeks of long day/short night conditions after sticking followed by photoinductive short day/long night conditions, flower about 49 days later.
Quantity of infloreseences.--About 6 inflorescences per flowering stem. Diameter: About 4.3 cm. Depth (height): About 1.8 cm. Diameter of disc: About 7 mm.
Opening inflorescences.--Bud shape: Flattened. Bud size: Length: About 7 mm. Width: About 1 cm. Bud color: 70A.
Ray florets.--Shape: Spatulate. Size: Length: About 1.8 cm. Width: About 6 mm. Apex: Rounded, emarginate. Base: Acute. Margin: Entire. Texture: Satiny, smooth and glabrous. Aspect: Flat. Number of ray florets per inflorescence: About 156. Color: When opening, adaxial surface: 70B. When opening, abaxial surface: 70D. Mature, adaxial surface: 77C. Mature, abaxial surface: 75C. Fading to: 75B.
Disc florets.--Shape: Tubular. Size: Length: About 4 mm. Width: About 1 mm. Number of disc florets per inflorescence: About 28. Color: Immature: 6A. Mature: 6A.
Peduncle.--Aspect: Strong and angled about 35° to the stem. Length: First peduncle: About 3.8 cm. Fourth peduncle: About 6 cm. Texture: Pubescent. Color: 148B.
Reproductive organs.--Androecium: Present on disc florets only. Anther color: 14A. Pollen: Moderate, 14A in color. Gynoecium: Present on both ray and disc florets. Style color: 154C.
Disease resistance:
No known Chrysanthemum diseases observed to date on plants grown under commercial greenhouse conditions.
Seed production:
Seed production has not been observed.
              CHART A                                                     
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CHARACTERISTIC     `BLUE JAY` `DEBONAIR`                                  
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PLANT HEIGHT       About 22 cm                                            
                              About 24 cm                                 
LATERAL STEM LENGTH                                                       
                   About 20 cm                                            
                              About 18.5 cm                               
STEM COLOR         146C       147C                                        
LEAF LENGTH        About 5 cm About 4.2 cm                                
LEAF WIDTH         About 4 cm About 3.5 cm                                
PETIOLE LENGTH     About 2 cm About 1.5 cm                                
YOUNG FOLIAGE, ADAXIAL                                                    
                   137C       147A                                        
YOUNG FOLIAGE, ABAXIAL                                                    
                   137D       147B                                        
QUANTITY OF INFLORESCENCES                                                
                   6          5                                           
PER LATERAL STEM                                                          
BUD SHAPE          Flattened  Spherical                                   
BUD COLOR          70A        65B                                         
RAY FLORET COLOR   70B        82D                                         
WHEN OPENING, ADAXIAL                                                     
RAY FLORET COLOR, WHEN                                                    
                   70D        75D                                         
OPENING, ABAXIAL                                                          
RAY FLORET COLOR, MATURE,                                                 
                   77C        84B                                         
ADAXIAL                                                                   
RAY FLORET COLOR, MATURE,                                                 
                   75C        76D                                         
ABAXIAL                                                                   
RAY FLORET COLOR FADING TO                                                
                   75B        84C                                         
NUMBER OF RAY FLORETS PER                                                 
                   About 156  About 196                                   
INFLORESCENCE                                                             
NUMBER OF DISC FLORETS PER                                                
                   About 28   About 8                                     
INFLORESCENCE                                                             
DISC FLORET COLOR, 6A         2B                                          
IMMATURE                                                                  
DISC FLORET COLOR, MATURE                                                 
                   6A         2B                                          
DIAMETER OF DISC   About 7 mm About 3 mm                                  
PEDUNCLE LENGTH, FIRST                                                    
                   About 3.8 cm                                           
                              About 1.8 cm                                
PEDUNCLE LENGTH, FOURTH                                                   
                   About 6 cm About 3.1 cm                                
PEDUNCLE STRENGTH  Strong     Moderately                                  
                              strong                                      
PEDUNCLE ANGLE TO STEM                                                    
                   About 35°                                       
                              About 30°                            
PEDUNCLE COLOR     148B       137D                                        
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