USPP27039P3 - Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Zanmugrape’ - Google Patents

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant named ‘Zanmugrape’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with purple ray florets and prolific branching; natural season flowering date October 13; blooming for a period of 5 weeks.

Description

Botanical designation: Chrysanthemum×morifolium Ramat.

Cultivar denomination: ‘Zanmugrape’.

RELATED CULTIVARS

This new plant cultivar ‘Zanmugrape’ is of the botanical classification Chrysanthemum×morifolium Ramat.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as Chrysanthemum×morifolium Ramat., commercially known as a garden mum, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar denomination ‘Zanmugrape’. ‘Zanmugrape’ is a product of a breeding and selection program for outdoor pot mums (garden mums) which had the objective of creating new cultivars with a double type inflorescence, a natural season flowering date around October 1, blooming for a period of 5 weeks. ‘Zanmugrape’ is a seedling resulting from a cross of the female parent 22173 with the male parent 17006. Plants of the new cultivar ‘Zanmugrape’ differ from plants of the parents in the following characteristics. (1) Ray-floret color. And (2) Natural season flowering date. (1) Plants of the seedling have purple colored ray-florets, while plants of the female parent have pink colored ray-florets, and plants of the male parent have salmon colored ray-florets. (2) Plants of the seedling flower two weeks earlier in the season than those of the female parent, and one week earlier than those of the male parent. The new and distinct cultivar was discovered and selected as a flowering plant by Henricus Cornelius Maria Jacobs on a cultivated field in Rijsenhout, The Netherlands in 2010. The first act of asexual production of ‘Zanmugrape’ was accomplished when vegetative cuttings from the initial selection in 2010 were propagated further in a controlled environment in Rijsenhout, The Netherlands. The new cultivar has been found to retain its distinctive characteristics through successive propagations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention of a new and distinct variety of chrysanthemum (of about 19 weeks) is shown in the accompanying drawings, the color being as nearly true as possible with color photographs of this type.

FIG. 1 shows a plant of the cultivar in full bloom.

FIG. 2 shows the various stages of bloom of the new cultivar.

FIG. 3 shows the various stages of foliage of the new cultivar.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The observations and measurements were gathered from plants grown out door in Rijsenhout, The Netherlands, under natural day length and temperature and planted in week 25 in 2014, receiving drip irrigation. The natural blooming date of this crop was October 13. The average height of the plants was 29 cm. No growth retardants were used. No tests were done on disease or insect resistance or susceptibility. No tests were done on cold or drought tolerance. This new variety produces medium sized blooms with purple ray florets blooming for a period of 5 weeks. From the cultivars known to inventor the most similar existing cultivar in comparison to ‘Zanmugrape’ is ‘Venus’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,378). When ‘Venus’ and ‘Zanmugrape’ are being compared the following difference is noticed: The difference of ‘Venus’ and ‘Zanmugrape’ is their natural season blooming date, plants of ‘Venus’ flower earlier than those of ‘Zanmugrape’.

The following is a description of the plant and characteristics that distinguish ‘Zanmugrape’ as a new and distinct variety.

The color designations are taken from the plant itself. Accordingly, any discrepancies between the color designations and the colors depicted in the photographs are due to photographic tolerances. The color chart used in this description is: The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, edition 2001.

TABLE 1
Botanical Description of Chrysanthemum x morifolium
Ramat. ‘Zanmugrape’

Bud
Size:	Small; cross-section 3 mm,
	height 3 mm
Shape:	Round
Texture:	Pubescent
Outside color:	Greyed-green 191A
Phyllaries
Number:	21, arranged in 3 rows
Shape:	Elliptic
Apex:	Acute
Base:	Truncate
Margin:	Entire
Color:	Upper side: Yellow-green 144A
	Lower side: Greyed-green 191C
Length and width:	1 mm; 3 mm
Texture:	Pubescent
Inflorescences
Type:	Double
Height:	0.5 cm
Diameter:	4.5-5 cm
Peduncle length:	4.5-6.5 cm
Peduncle color:	Greyed-green 191D
Peduncle diameter:	1.5 mm
Peduncle texture:	Pubescent
Number per branch:	About 5 inflorescences
Duration of flowering:	5 weeks
Seeds:	Produced in small quantities,
	ovate, Greyed-brown 199A,
	length 1.5 mm, diameter 0.5 mm
Fragrance:	Faint chrysanthemum odor
Color inflorescences
Center of inflorescence:	Immature stage: Red-purple
	71A;
	Mature stage: Red-purple
	71A
Color of upper side of ray florets:	Red-purple 61A
Color of lower side of ray florets:	Greyed-purple 186C
Tonality from distance:	A garden mum with purple blooms
Color of ray florets after aging	Greyed-purple 186B
of the plant:
Ray florets
Texture:	Upper and lower side smooth
Number:	90-100
Shape:	Elliptic
Apex:	Dentate
Base:	Attenuate
Cross-section:	Flat
Longitudinal axis:	Straight
Length of corolla tube:	3 mm
Ray floret margin:	Entire
Ray floret length:	1.5-2.5 cm
Ray floret width:	2-4 mm
Ratio length/width:	High
Disc florets	Absent
Receptacle
Color:	Yellow-green 145D
Shape:	Domed raised
Height:	3.5 mm
Diameter:	3 mm
Reproductive Organs
Androecium:	Absent
Gynoecium:	Present on ray florets
Style color:	Yellow-green 154C
Style length:	4 mm
Stigma color:	Yellow 7A
Stigma width:	1 mm
Ovary:	Enclosed in calyx
Plant
Form:	Grown as a spray type pot mum,
	outdoor raised and mounded
Growth habit:	Spherical shape
Growth rate:	Vigorous
Height:	28-30 cm
Width:	60 cm
Stem color:	Greyed-brown 199A
Stem strength:	Not strong
Stem brittleness:	Brittle
Stem anthocyanin coloration:	Present
Internode length:	0.75-2 cm
Length of lateral branch:	From top to bottom 17-19 cm
Lateral branch color:	Greyed-Green 191C with
	streaks in Greyed-purple 186D
Lateral branch, attachment:	Weak
Lateral branch diameter:	2 mm
Branching (average number of	Prolific with 7 breaks after pinching
lateral branches):
Natural season blooming date:	October 13 (week 42)
Foliage
Leaf color:	Upper side: Green 136B
	Lower side: Green 139B
Color midvein:	Upper side: Yellow-green 147D
	Lower side: Yellow-green 148D
Size:	Small; length 2 -5.5 cm,
	width 1.6-3 cm
Quantity	about 16
(number per lateral branches):
Shape:	Elliptic
Texture upper side:	Sparsely pubescent
Texture under side:	Pubescent
Venation arrangement:	Pinnate
Shape of margin:	Serrated
Shape of base of sinus	Rounded
between lateral lobes:
Margin of sinus between	Diverging
lateral lobes:
Shape of base:	Truncate to asymmetric
Apex:	Mucronulate
Petiole length:	0.8-1 cm
Petiole diameter:	1.5 mm
Petiole color:	Yellow-green 147D

TABLE 2
Differences with the comparison variety,
when grown under identical conditions

	‘Zanmugrape’	‘Venus’
Natural season blooming date	week 42	week 39

Claims (1)

I claim:

1. A new and distinct chrysanthemum plant named ‘Zanmugrape’ as described and illustrated.

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