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US PP4,196 PGranted
Cactaceae plant
AssigneeB. L. Cobia, Inc.
InventorsBarnell L. Cobia, Stephen H. Griffith
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AssigneeB. L. Cobia, Inc.
InventorsBarnell L. Cobia, Stephen H. Griffith
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A new and distinct hybrid plant variety of the Cactaceae family is related to the Zygocactus truncatus `Kris Kringle` and Zygocactus truncatus `Lavender Doll` varieties and is principally distinguished by a growth habit which combines characteristics that include a natural tendency to branch without inducement by pruning during the growth period, a fast growth rate with resistances to nutrient deficiencies and fungus type diseases that are comparable to those of the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties, a resistance to flower bud abscission that is comparable to those of the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties and a flower that blooms earlier than that of the `Lavender Doll` variety and has a bloom life of from about 6 to about 9 days, a pistil with a style that is translucent white at its proximal end and in color at its distal end is dominated by purplish red and/or reddish purple hues and with a stigma which is translucent white, and tepals which have marginal blade areas that in color are dominated by purplish red and/or reddish purple hues and which include a sepaloid series of free tepals with inner whorl members having basal areas that in color are dominated by a purplish pink hue, a perianth tube forming series of basally united tepals that form a translucent white vestigal carina at the throat of the tube, and a series of tube laminating tepals which usually number from 5 to 7 in the bloom.
The new and distinct hybrid plant variety of the Cactaceae family as described and illustrated and which is principally distinguished by a growth habit that combines the following characteristics:
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The invention relates to a new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family and which has been named the Zygocactus truncatus `Christmas Charm` by the inventor.
Certain plant varieties of the Cactaceae family are well known in the foliage plant market and among those are those of the truncatus species of the Zygocactus genus. These varieties tend to bloom in the months of November and December in the Northern Hemisphere and hence they appear in the retail market area primarily during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons and wherein they are commonly referred to as a "Christmas Cactus".
The Zygocactus truncatus `Kris Kringle` forms the subject matter of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,688 and has a heritage that includes the variety known commercially as `Christmas Cheer` and the variety known as Zygocactus truncatus `Parma`. It has a "reddish" colored bloom and a bloom life which provides a suitable shelf life at the retail level of sales. The variety also has a fast growth rate with substantial resistances to nutrient deficiencies and to fungus type diseases. The `Kris Kringle` variety also has a substantial resistance to flower bud abscission and is endowed with a natural tendency to branch without inducement by pruning during the growth period before blooming. The growth rate, resistances, and branching tendencies are much sought after by growers of the so-called "Christmas Cactus" varieties.
The accompanying drawings serve, by color photographic means to illustrate the new plant variety and wherein:
One sheet is a color photograph of a blooming 6 month old plant specimen of the new plant variety, a second sheet shows color photographs of other blooming specimens and a third sheet embodies color photographs which further illustrate the blooms and certain parts thereof.
The following is a detailed description of the new plant variety with colors and hues, unless otherwise clearly indicated by the text through the absence of color notations, being named in accord with the ISCC-NBS method of designating colors (U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Circular 553, issued Nov. 1, 1955), the named colors being interpreted from color notations derived by comparison with the color specimens in the current "Neighboring Hues Edition" of the Munsell Book of Color, published by the Munsell Color Company, Inc., of Baltimore, Md. The following description is further based on observations of well fertilized plants of less than one year of age from initial propagation and which were grown under 50-75% shaded glasshouse nursery conditions in the Winter Garden, Fla., area and wherein temperatures range from 60.degree. to 85.degree. F. during the winter months, from 75.degree. to 95.degree. F. during the summer months and are ambient during intervening periods.
Name: Zygocactus truncatus `Christmas Charm`.
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