Geranium plant named Fisgrand

#The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of geranium, botanically known as Pelargonium zonale l'Hert, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Fisgrand.

#Fisgrand is a product of planned breeding program which had the objective of creating new geranium cultivars with orange red flower color, semi-double flower form, medium green foliage with zonation, medium growth habit, all in combination with comparatively early spring flower response.

#Fisgrand was originated from a hybridization made by the inventor Ingeborg Schumann in a controlled breeding program in Galdar, Gran Canaria, Spain in 1986. The female parent was a seedling identified by the number I 83/764/3, derived by selfing a seedling obtained by a cross between the unpatented cultivar Tetra Scharlach and a cultivar from a tetraploid line from the unpatented cultivar Stadt Bern. Tetra Scharlach is characterized by single scarlet red flowers and leaves without zonation. Stadt Bern has orange red flowers and dark green foliage with very strong zonation.

#The accompanying color photographic drawing shows typical flower and foliage characteristics of Fisgrand, with colors being as true as possible with illustrations of this type.

#In the following description color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart. The color values were determined indoors from plants grown indoors in June at Hillscheid, Federal Republic of Germany.

#Classification:

#Botanical.--A hybrid of the species Pelargonium zonale l'Hert.