Chrysanthemum plant -- Tigris cultivar

#The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum, botanically known as Dendranthema morifolium Ramat., previously, Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., and hereinafter is referred to by the cultivar name Tigris.

#The new cultivar is the product of a planned breeding program which had as its objective the creation of a new Chrysanthemum cultivar which exhibits attractive orange single flowers having a green center when immature, exhibits a flower response period of approximately nine weeks, and possesses the ability to produce flowers of commercially acceptable quality throughout the year in a cut mum production program. Such combination of traits is not believed to have been present in the previously available Chrysanthemum cultivars. This objective was satisfactorily fulfilled in the cultivar of the present invention.

#The breeding program which resulted in the production of the new cultivar of the present invention was carried out in a controlled environment during 1986 at De Lier, The Netherlands. The female parent (i.e., the seed parent) was the Klondike cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,978) and the male parent (i.e., the pollen parent) was an unnamed plant designated 84.815. The parentage of the new cultivar can be summarized as follows:

#The accompanying photograph shows as nearly true as it is reasonably possible to make the same in a color illustration of this character, a typical specimen of an overall plant of the new cultivar. The plant was grown in a greenhouse at De Lier, The Netherlands.

#The chart used in the identification of colors described hereafter is the R.H.S. Colour Chart of The Royal Horticultural Society, London, England. The color values were determined at 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon under natural daylight conditions at De Lier, The Netherlands, during October, 1990. The plants described were grown under standard greenhouse conditions which approximate those commonly utilized for the production of cut mums.

#Classification:

#Botanical.--Dendranthema morifolium Ramat., cv. Tigris.