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US PP4,200 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 plant variety of the Cactaceae family is related to the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties of the truncatus species and Zygocactus genus and has a growth habit providing specimens that combine the following principal distinguishing characteristics: a fast growth rate as comparable to that of the `Kris Kringle` variety; a natural tendency to branch without inducement by pruning during the growth period prior to blooming and which is comparable to that of the `Kris Kringle` variety; resistances to nutrient deficiencies and fungus type diseases that are comparable to those of the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties; a substantially greater resistance to flower bud abscission in comparison to the `Lavender Doll` and `Kris Kringle` varieites; and a bloom with less recurve in the tube forming tepals in comparison to the `Kris Kringle` variety and which commonly occurs from about 2 to 4 weeks earlier than blooms of the `Peach Parfait` variety, and having a bloom life of from about 6 to 9 days, a shorter style and perianth tube than those of the `Kris Kringle` and `Lavender Doll` varieties and perianth tube laminating and forming tepals with marginal blade areas that in color are dominated by pink, yellowish pink, red and/or reddish orange hues.
The new and distinct variety of the Cactaceae family substantially as herein shown and described and which has a growth habit providing specimens that combine the following principal distinguishing 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 `Twilight Tangerine` by the inventors.
Certain plant varieties of the Cactaceae family are well known in the foliage plant market and among these is the Zygocactus truncatus variety commonly known as the `Christmas Cheer` variety. This variety and its related varieties tend to bloom in the months of November and December in the Northern Hermisphere and hence their appearance in the retail market area is primarily during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons.
The `Christmas Cheer` variety has what may be called a "salmon" color and among its descendants are the varieties of the truncatus species which have been named the `Lavender Doll`, `Kris Kringle` and `Peach Parfait`.
The accompanying drawings serve by color photographic means to illustrate the new plant variety and wherein one sheet shows a 6 month old specimen of the new plant variety that was propagated in the month of June, and the other sheet illustrates an 11 month old specimen of the new plant variety that was propagated in the month of January and pruned to one tier above the original cutting the following June, and blooms and maturing buds of the new variety.
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 description is further based on observations of well fertilized plants of less than one (1) 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.-85.degree. F. during the winter months, and from 75.degree.-95.degree. F. during the summer months, and are ambient during the intervening periods.
Name: Zygocactus truncatus `Twilight Tangerine`.
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