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USPP15409P2
USPP15409P2 US10/818,493 US81849304V USPP15409P2 US PP15409 P2 USPP15409 P2 US PP15409P2 US 81849304 V US81849304 V US 81849304V US PP15409 P2 USPP15409 P2 US PP15409P2
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  • Botanical classification/cultivar denomination Argyranthemum frutescens cultivar Supalife.
  • the present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Argyranthemum plant, botanically known as Argyranthemum frutescens and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Supalife’.
  • the new Argyranthemum is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia.
  • the objective of the program is to create and develop new compact Argyranthemum cultivars with numerous inflorescences, interesting inflorescence form, and attractive ray floret coloration.
  • the new Argyranthemum originated from a cross-pollination by the Inventor in the spring of 2000, of a proprietary selection of Argyranthemum frutescens identified as X99.1.1, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent, with a proprietary selection of Argyranthemum frutescens identified as X99.1.3, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent.
  • the new Argyranthemum was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia in September, 2001.
  • the selection of the new Argyranthemum was based on its attractive inflorescence form and ray floret coloration.
  • the new Argyranthemum has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions.
  • the phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature and light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.
  • Plants of the new Argyranthemum differ from plants of the female parent selection in inflorescence form and ray floret coloration as plants of the female parent selection have anemone-type inflorescences with pink-colored ray florets. In addition, plants of the new Argyranthemum are more compact than plants of the female parent selection. Plants of the new Argyranthemum differ primarily from plants of the male parent selection in inflorescence form as plants of the male parent selection have daisy-type inflorescences.
  • Plants of the new Argyranthemum can be compared to plants of the cultivar Supagem, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,826. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia, plants of the new Argyranthemum differed from plants of the cultivar Supagem in the following characteristics:
  • the photograph at the top of the sheet comprises a side perspective view of a typical flowering plant of ‘Supalife’ grown in a one-gallon container.
  • the photograph at the bottom of the sheet comprises a close-up view of inflorescences of ‘Supalife’.
  • Botanical classification Argyranthemum frutescens cultivar Supalife.
  • Type Terminal vegetative cuttings.
  • Time to initiate roots. About 10 days at 20° C.
  • Time to produce a rooted cutting. About three weeks at 20° C.
  • Root description Fibrous, fine; white in color.
  • Rooting description Freely branching, dense.
  • Lateral branch description. Quality per plant: About nine primary lateral branches; each with about seven secondary lateral branches. Length: About 28 cm. Diameter: About 6 mm. Internode length: Vegetative stems, about 1 cm; flowering stems, about 1 cm. Aspect: Upright and outwardly spreading. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: 145B.
  • Foliage description is: Alternate, simple. Length: About 6.5 cm. Width: About 3.4 cm. Shape: Pinnatifid, deeply and finely incised. Apex: Acute. Base: Attenuate. Margin: Entire; deeply and finely incised; sinuses parallel. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Venation pattern: Pinnate. Petiole length: About 1.5 cm. Petiole diameter: About 2 mm. Petiole texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Color: Developing foliage, upper surface: 147A. Developing foliage, lower surface: 147B. Fully expanded foliage, upper surface: 147A. Fully expanded foliage, lower surface: Darker than 147B. Venation, upper surface: 147A. Venation, lower surface: 147B. Petiole, upper and lower surfaces: 147C.
  • Appearance Double-type inflorescence form with ligulate ray florets. Disc and ray florets develop acropetally on a capitulum. Inflorescences held upright and outwardly on terminal and axillary peduncles. Inflorescences positioned perpendicular to the peduncles. Inflorescences persistent. Inflorescences not fragrant.
  • Inflorescence longevity Inflorescences last about ten days on the plant.
  • Quantity of inflorescences Freely flowering, about 20 buds and open inflorescences per lateral branch.
  • Inflorescence size Diameter: About 3.4 cm. Depth (height): About 1.8 cm. Diameter of disc: About 2 cm. Receptacle height: About 7 mm. Receptacle diameter: About 1.8 cm.
  • Inflorescence buds at stage of showing color. —Height: About 8 mm. Diameter: About 7 mm. Shape: Roughly ovoid. Color: 157A.
  • Ray florets. Quantity per inflorescence: About 150 arranged in numerous whorls. Shape: Ligulate. Length: About 1.7 cm. Width: About 5 mm. Apex: Emarginate or rounded. Base: Acute. Margin: Entire. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, satiny. Aspect: Initially upright; when mature, about 90° from vertical; slightly reflexing with development. Color: When opening, upper surface: Close to 155B. When opening, lower surface: Close to 155A. Fully opened, upper and lower surfaces: Close to 155D.
  • Disc florets —Arrangement: Massed at the center of the inflorescence. Quantity per inflorescence: About two to five. Shape: Tubular; apex, five-pointed; base, fused. Length: About 6 mm. Diameter, apex: About 1.5 mm. Diameter, base: Less than 1 mm. Color: Apex: 158A. Mid-section and base: 144D.
  • Involucral bracts ( phyllaries ).—Appearance: Scale-like; margins, papery. Quantity per inflorescence: About 24. Length: About 2 mm. Width: About 1.5 mm. Shape: Elliptic. Apex: Acute. Base: Truncate. Margin: Entire. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Glabrous, smooth. Color, upper and lower surfaces: 147B.
  • Peduncle. Strength: Moderately strong; wiry. Aspect: Upright to about 45° from vertical. Length, terminal inflorescence: About 8.5 cm. Diameter: About 2 mm. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: 146B.

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A new and distinct cultivar of Argyranthemum plant named ‘Supalife’, characterized by its compact, mounded, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching habit, dense and bushy plants; freely flowering habit with numerous inflorescences per plant; double-type inflorescence form with white-colored ray florets.

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Botanical classification/cultivar denomination: Argyranthemum frutescens cultivar Supalife.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Argyranthemum plant, botanically known as Argyranthemum frutescens and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Supalife’.
The new Argyranthemum is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia. The objective of the program is to create and develop new compact Argyranthemum cultivars with numerous inflorescences, interesting inflorescence form, and attractive ray floret coloration.
The new Argyranthemum originated from a cross-pollination by the Inventor in the spring of 2000, of a proprietary selection of Argyranthemum frutescens identified as X99.1.1, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent, with a proprietary selection of Argyranthemum frutescens identified as X99.1.3, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Argyranthemum was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia in September, 2001. The selection of the new Argyranthemum was based on its attractive inflorescence form and ray floret coloration.
Asexual reproduction of the new Argyranthemum by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia since September, 2001, has shown that the unique features of this new Argyranthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new Argyranthemum has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature and light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following characteristics have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be basic characteristics of ‘Supalife’ and distinguish the new Argyranthemum as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, mounded, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit, dense and bushy plants.
3. Freely flowering habit with numerous inflorescences per plant.
4. Double inflorescence form with white-colored ray florets.
Plants of the new Argyranthemum differ from plants of the female parent selection in inflorescence form and ray floret coloration as plants of the female parent selection have anemone-type inflorescences with pink-colored ray florets. In addition, plants of the new Argyranthemum are more compact than plants of the female parent selection. Plants of the new Argyranthemum differ primarily from plants of the male parent selection in inflorescence form as plants of the male parent selection have daisy-type inflorescences.
Plants of the new Argyranthemum can be compared to plants of the cultivar Supagem, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,826. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia, plants of the new Argyranthemum differed from plants of the cultivar Supagem in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Argyranthemum were more compact than plants of the cultivar Supagem.
2. Inflorescences of plant of the new Argyranthemum were more uniform than inflorescences of plants of the cultivar Supagem.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS
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 reproduction of this type. Colors in the photographs may differ slightly from the color values cited in the detailed botanical description which accurately describe the colors of the new Argyranthemum.
The photograph at the top of the sheet comprises a side perspective view of a typical flowering plant of ‘Supalife’ grown in a one-gallon container.
The photograph at the bottom of the sheet comprises a close-up view of inflorescences of ‘Supalife’.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The aforementioned photographs, following observations and averaged measurements describe plants grown in Encinitas, Calif., in an outdoor nursery under full sunlight during winter and spring with day temperatures about 15° C. and night temperatures about 10° C. Plants were grown for about 16 weeks when the photographs and description were taken. Plants were pinched one time about five weeks after planting. Color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, 1995 Edition, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.
Botanical classification: Argyranthemum frutescens cultivar Supalife.
Parentage:
Female or seed parent.—Proprietary selection of Argyranthemum frutescens identified as X99.1.1, not patented.
Male or pollen parent.—Proprietary selection of Argyranthemum frutescens identified as X99.1.3, not patented.
Propagation:
Type.—Terminal vegetative cuttings.
Time to initiate roots.—About 10 days at 20° C.
Time to produce a rooted cutting.—About three weeks at 20° C.
Root description.—Fibrous, fine; white in color.
Rooting description.—Freely branching, dense.
Plant description:
General appearance.—Inverted triangle; compact, mounded, upright and outwardly spreading plant form with dense foliage and inflorescences held above and beyond the foliage. Vigorous growth habit.
Plant height.—About 32 cm.
Plant width.—About 46 cm.
Lateral branch description.—Quantity per plant: About nine primary lateral branches; each with about seven secondary lateral branches. Length: About 28 cm. Diameter: About 6 mm. Internode length: Vegetative stems, about 1 cm; flowering stems, about 1 cm. Aspect: Upright and outwardly spreading. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: 145B.
Foliage description.—Arrangement: Alternate, simple. Length: About 6.5 cm. Width: About 3.4 cm. Shape: Pinnatifid, deeply and finely incised. Apex: Acute. Base: Attenuate. Margin: Entire; deeply and finely incised; sinuses parallel. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Venation pattern: Pinnate. Petiole length: About 1.5 cm. Petiole diameter: About 2 mm. Petiole texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Color: Developing foliage, upper surface: 147A. Developing foliage, lower surface: 147B. Fully expanded foliage, upper surface: 147A. Fully expanded foliage, lower surface: Darker than 147B. Venation, upper surface: 147A. Venation, lower surface: 147B. Petiole, upper and lower surfaces: 147C.
Inflorescence description:
Appearance.—Double-type inflorescence form with ligulate ray florets. Disc and ray florets develop acropetally on a capitulum. Inflorescences held upright and outwardly on terminal and axillary peduncles. Inflorescences positioned perpendicular to the peduncles. Inflorescences persistent. Inflorescences not fragrant.
Flowering response.—Under natural conditions, plants flower from spring to early fall in Southern California; plants flower continuous during this period.
Inflorescence longevity.—Inflorescences last about ten days on the plant.
Quantity of inflorescences.—Freely flowering, about 20 buds and open inflorescences per lateral branch.
Inflorescence size.—Diameter: About 3.4 cm. Depth (height): About 1.8 cm. Diameter of disc: About 2 cm. Receptacle height: About 7 mm. Receptacle diameter: About 1.8 cm.
Inflorescence buds, at stage of showing color.—Height: About 8 mm. Diameter: About 7 mm. Shape: Roughly ovoid. Color: 157A.
Ray florets.—Quantity per inflorescence: About 150 arranged in numerous whorls. Shape: Ligulate. Length: About 1.7 cm. Width: About 5 mm. Apex: Emarginate or rounded. Base: Acute. Margin: Entire. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, satiny. Aspect: Initially upright; when mature, about 90° from vertical; slightly reflexing with development. Color: When opening, upper surface: Close to 155B. When opening, lower surface: Close to 155A. Fully opened, upper and lower surfaces: Close to 155D.
Disc florets.—Arrangement: Massed at the center of the inflorescence. Quantity per inflorescence: About two to five. Shape: Tubular; apex, five-pointed; base, fused. Length: About 6 mm. Diameter, apex: About 1.5 mm. Diameter, base: Less than 1 mm. Color: Apex: 158A. Mid-section and base: 144D.
Involucral bracts (phyllaries).—Appearance: Scale-like; margins, papery. Quantity per inflorescence: About 24. Length: About 2 mm. Width: About 1.5 mm. Shape: Elliptic. Apex: Acute. Base: Truncate. Margin: Entire. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Glabrous, smooth. Color, upper and lower surfaces: 147B.
Peduncle.—Strength: Moderately strong; wiry. Aspect: Upright to about 45° from vertical. Length, terminal inflorescence: About 8.5 cm. Diameter: About 2 mm. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: 146B.
Reproductive organs.—Androecium: Present on disc florets only. Quantity per floret: Five. Anther shape: Oblong. Anther length: Less than 1 mm. Anther color: 10A. Amount of pollen: None observed. Gynoecium: Present on ray and disc florets. Quantity per floret: One. Pistil length: About 7 mm. Stigma shape: Two-parted. Stigma color: 10A. Style length: About 3 mm. Style color: 157A. Ovary color: 145C. Seed/fruit: Seed and fruit production has not been observed.
Disease/pest resistance: Resistance to pathogens and pests common to Argyranthemums has not been observed on plants grown under commercial conditions.
Temperature/weather tolerance: Plants of the new Argyranthemum have been observed to be tolerant to rain, wind and to temperatures from −1 to 30° C.

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