USPP31692P3 - Lachenalia Jacq. F. ex Murray plant named ‘Rainbow Bells’ - Google Patents

Lachenalia Jacq. F. ex Murray plant named ‘Rainbow Bells’ Download PDF

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USPP31692P3
USPP31692P3 US14/756,821 US201514756821V USPP31692P3 US PP31692 P3 USPP31692 P3 US PP31692P3 US 201514756821 V US201514756821 V US 201514756821V US PP31692 P3 USPP31692 P3 US PP31692P3
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  • the present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Lachenalia , botanically known as Lachenalia Jacq. f. ex Murray having the common name of Viooltjies/Cape cowslip and hereinafter referred to by its variety denomination ‘Rainbow Bells’.
  • the variety was first cultivated in 2008 and originated by means of conventional breeding by the inventor during 2009 to 2010 at the premises of Agricultural Research Council Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute, Roodeplaat, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa.
  • the present invention constitutes a new and distinct variety of Lachenalia which originated from an inter-species cross between two different accessions of Lachenalia flava as detailed herein below.
  • Plants of the new Lachenalia variety ‘Rainbow Bells’ can be compared to similar denominations such as ‘Romelia’ and ‘Namakwa’.
  • ‘Romelia’ has plain yellow bell-shaped flowers whereas ‘Rainbow Bells’ has multicolored bell-shaped flowers having an orange (RHS #32A) base, turning yellow (RHS #9A) ending in a red/maroon (RHS #45A) tip.
  • ‘Romelia’ does not have widely recurving tips like ‘Rainbow Bells’, but the stamens are included as opposed to the exerted stamens of ‘Rainbow Bells’. The inflorescence is not as dense as that of ‘Rainbow Bells’.
  • the flowers of ‘Rainbow Bells’ are furthermore shorter than those of ‘Romelia’.
  • ‘Namakwa’ has plain yellow flowers with reddish tips and are of tubular shape. The flower orientation of ‘Namakwa’ is horizontal whilst the orientation of ‘Rainbow Bells’ is hanging.
  • the first drawing illustrates the overall appearance of the ‘Rainbow Bells’, showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type.
  • the first drawing comprises a front perspective view of a typical ‘Rainbow Bells’ grown in an indoor nursery.
  • the second drawing illustrates the overall appearance of the ‘Rainbow Bells’, showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type.
  • the second drawing comprises a front perspective view of a typical ‘Rainbow Bells’ grown in an indoor nursery.
  • the plant may be used for landscaping and should be planted during the month of March; indoors and in pots only.
  • the plant should be kept at temperatures of 20-25 degrees Celsius during the day and 10-15 degrees Celsius at night. Plenty of light should be provided.
  • the female parent has pure yellow flowers with spots on the leaves, whereas the male parent has plain yellow flowers with widely recurving tips and spots on the leaves.
  • a specific seedling with number 1996/32/21 was selected from the parental cross described above and thereafter asexually propagated.
  • the asexual progeny of this seedling is the cultivar ‘Rainbow Bells’ and was multiplied via tissue culture at the premises of Agricultural Research Council Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute, Roodeplaat, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa.
  • the variety is not genetically modified and has been tested to be free of Ornithogalum Mosaic Virus.

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A new and distinct form of Lachenalia plant characterized by a bulb plant type having a spreading growth habit of a height of 15-30 centimetres (cm) and width of 10-15 cm; a bell-shaped multicolored yellow, orange and red flower.

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Genus and species: Lachenalia Jacq. f. ex Murray.
Variety denomination: ‘Rainbow Bells’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Lachenalia, botanically known as Lachenalia Jacq. f. ex Murray having the common name of Viooltjies/Cape cowslip and hereinafter referred to by its variety denomination ‘Rainbow Bells’.
The variety was first cultivated in 2008 and originated by means of conventional breeding by the inventor during 2009 to 2010 at the premises of Agricultural Research Council Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute, Roodeplaat, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa.
Asexual reproduction of the ‘Rainbow Bells’ plant at the same location has shown that the unique features thereof are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention constitutes a new and distinct variety of Lachenalia which originated from an inter-species cross between two different accessions of Lachenalia flava as detailed herein below.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics, under the local evaluation conditions, of the ‘Rainbow Bells’ plant. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Rainbow Bells’ as a new and distinct Lachenalia cultivar:
    • 1. Bulb plant type having a spreading growth habit of a height of 15-30 centimeters (cm) and width of 10-15 cm.
    • 2. Flower color: red (RHS #53A) when opening, yellow (RHS #9A) when open; multicolored yellow (RHS #9A), orange (RHS #32A) and red/maroon (RHS #45A) tip.
    • 3. Flower form: Bell shaped.
Color references are made to The R.H.S. Color Chart, 1st edition, 1966, except where general color terms of ordinary significance are used or indicated otherwise.
Plants of the new Lachenalia variety ‘Rainbow Bells’ can be compared to similar denominations such as ‘Romelia’ and ‘Namakwa’. ‘Romelia’ has plain yellow bell-shaped flowers whereas ‘Rainbow Bells’ has multicolored bell-shaped flowers having an orange (RHS #32A) base, turning yellow (RHS #9A) ending in a red/maroon (RHS #45A) tip. ‘Romelia’ does not have widely recurving tips like ‘Rainbow Bells’, but the stamens are included as opposed to the exerted stamens of ‘Rainbow Bells’. The inflorescence is not as dense as that of ‘Rainbow Bells’. The flowers of ‘Rainbow Bells’ are furthermore shorter than those of ‘Romelia’. ‘Namakwa’ has plain yellow flowers with reddish tips and are of tubular shape. The flower orientation of ‘Namakwa’ is horizontal whilst the orientation of ‘Rainbow Bells’ is hanging.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The first drawing illustrates the overall appearance of the ‘Rainbow Bells’, showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type. The first drawing comprises a front perspective view of a typical ‘Rainbow Bells’ grown in an indoor nursery.
The second drawing illustrates the overall appearance of the ‘Rainbow Bells’, showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type. The second drawing comprises a front perspective view of a typical ‘Rainbow Bells’ grown in an indoor nursery.
 DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The aforementioned drawings, following observations and measurements describe ‘Rainbow Bells’ grown by the inventor on behalf of Agricultural Research Council Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute, Roodeplaat, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. Thereafter ‘Rainbow Bells’ was made subject of a South African Plant Breeders' Right application in March 2009. This application was granted in 2010 under number ZA20104396.
The plant may be used for landscaping and should be planted during the month of March; indoors and in pots only. The plant should be kept at temperatures of 20-25 degrees Celsius during the day and 10-15 degrees Celsius at night. Plenty of light should be provided.
‘Rainbow Bells’ is an early flowering cultivar with an exceptional keeping quality.
‘Rainbow Bells’ originated from an inter-species cross between Lachenalia flava accession number L102 (female parent) and Lachenalia flava accession number L144 (male parent).
The female parent has pure yellow flowers with spots on the leaves, whereas the male parent has plain yellow flowers with widely recurving tips and spots on the leaves.
A specific seedling with number 1996/32/21 was selected from the parental cross described above and thereafter asexually propagated. The asexual progeny of this seedling is the cultivar ‘Rainbow Bells’ and was multiplied via tissue culture at the premises of Agricultural Research Council Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute, Roodeplaat, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa.
The following characteristics of ‘Rainbow Bells’ are described with reference to description of said characteristic which are comparable with the mentioned variety/ies having said similar characteristic.
  • Leaf:
Variety having
Description of similar
Characteristic: ‘Rainbow Bells’: characteristics:
Attitude: Semi-erect ‘Romaud’
Length: Medium - 20 cm ‘Bontrok’, ‘Winsome’
Width: Medium - 3.7 cm ‘Rosabeth’
Ratio length/width: Large ‘Rodelein’
(elongated): 5.4:1
Shape: Oblong ‘Romargo’
Color: Light green ‘Romelia’
(RHS #143B)
Leaf color designation for Light green (RHS
lower sides of the leaf #143B)
Shape in cross section: Angular ‘Robyn’, ‘Romelia’
Recurving of margin: Absent ‘Eliza’, ‘Rodelein’
Undulation of margin: Absent ‘Romelia’
Blistering of upper side: Absent ‘Rodelein’, ‘Rosabeth’
Pubescence of upper side: Absent ‘Rodelein’, ‘Rosabeth’
Number of spots per leaf Not applicable
Spots on upper side: Absent ‘Rodelein’
Markings on outer side Absent ‘Rodelein’
of leaf base:
  • Peduncle:
Variety having
Description of similar
Characteristic: ‘Rainbow Bells’: characteristics:
Length: Medium - 13 cm ‘Rosabeth’
Peduncle color designation Light green
(RHS #141C)
Spots or markings: Absent ‘Rodelein’, ‘Sonni’
Coloration of peduncle spots Not applicable
Density of peduncle spots Not applicable
  • Bud:
Characteristic: Description of ‘Rainbow Bells’:
Color Orange-red (RHS #-34A of RHS color
chart, 2ndedition, 1986)
  • Inflorescence:
Variety having
Description of similar
Characteristic: ‘Rainbow Bells’: characteristics:
Length: Short to medium -
8.5 cm
Rudimentary apex: Inconspicuous ‘Rosabeth’
Number of flowers: Few to medium
(15-25 flowers)
  • Flower:
Variety having
Description of similar
Characteristic: ‘Rainbow Bells’: characteristics:
Description of floral organs Inflorescence
containing
individual bell-
shaped,
pendulous
flowers attached
with pedicels to
the peduncle
Attitude: Pendulous ‘Romelia’
Pedicel: Present ‘Romelia’
Length of pedicel: Medium ‘Bontrok’, ‘Louis’
(2-3 millimeter
(mm))
Flower length: Medium - 2.6 cm ‘Lizelle’, ‘Rolene’
‘Sonni’
Diameter excluding apex: Medium to large -
1.1 cm
Diameter at apex: Medium to large -
1.6 cm
Attitude of distal part of inner Spreading ‘Rozanne’
perianth segments:
Glossiness: Present
Predominant color: Yellow ‘Romelia’
(RHS #9A)
Intensity of predominant color: Strong ‘Romelia’, ‘Winseme’
Outer perianth segment: color Orange-red (RHS
of basal part just before #-34A of RHS
opening of flower color chart, 2nd
edition, 1986)
Outer perianth segment: color Yellow-orange
of basal part of fully opened (RHS #-17B of
flower RHS color chart,
2ndedition, 1986)
Outer perianth segment: color Clearly different ‘Ronette’
of apex relative to other part
Outer perianth segment: color Yellow-green ‘Bontrok’, ‘Leipoldt’,
of apex if clearly different (RHS #150A) ‘Roinge’
from other part
Inner perianth Absent ‘Bontrok’
segment: distinct spot in
middle of apex
Inner perianth segment: color Clearly different ‘Louis’, ‘Roinge’
of margin of apex relative to
other part
Inner perianth segment: color Brown ‘Roinge’, ‘Bontrok’
of differently colored margin (RHS #162C)
of apex
Inner perianth segment: Yellow-orange
predominant color of exposed (RHS #-17C of
part (excluding differently RHS color chart,
colored margin of apex) 2ndedition, 1986)
Length of inner perianth Much longer ‘Romelia’
segment compared to outer
segments:
Extrusion of stamens: Present ‘Louis’, ‘Rolene’
Fragrance: Absent ‘Romelia’
Bulb: predominant shape Oblate ‘Romaud’
Time of flowering: Very early - ‘Romaud’, ‘Romeila’,
flowering time ‘Ronette’
vary from May to
June (Southern
Hemisphere)
Duration of flowering: Medium ‘Rodelein’, ‘Roinge’
(1-2 months)
  • Others:
Characteristic: Description of ‘Rainbow Bells’:
Description of the bulb Cream/white (color designation - RHS
including size and color of the #158B)
bulb at maturity Size: between 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter
Time of leaf growth/bud burst Starts within the first week of watering
(normally March/April in Southern
Hemisphere)
A description of any fruit and No seed or fruit
seed set
Timing of leaf senescence After flowering has completed and starts
to die down, the leaves start to die off
(wheat color) and plant dry out
(September - October in Southern
Hemisphere)
The variety is not genetically modified and has been tested to be free of Ornithogalum Mosaic Virus.

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The invention claimed is:
1. A new and distinct variety of Lachenalia plant named ‘Rainbow Bells’ as illustrated and described herein.
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