Chrysanthemum plant named `Royal Anytime`

#The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, botanically known as Dendranthema grandiflora and referred to by the cultivar name Royal Anytime.

#The new cultivar is a spontaneous mutation of the commercial cultivar Anytime (U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 08/232,654, now abandoned). The new cultivar was discovered and selected by the inventor in Havant, Hampshire, United Kingdom, as a single plant among a population of plants of the cultivar Anytime. This single plant consistently formed inflorescences having lavender pink-colored ray florets compared to the light pink ray floret color of plants of the cultivar Anytime.

#Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Havant, Hampshire, United Kingdom, has shown that the unique features of this new Chrysanthemum are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.

#The accompanying colored photograph illustrates the overall appearance of the new cultivar, showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type. The photograph comprises a top perspective view of a typical flowering 16.5-cm container of Royal Anytime with five cuttings in the container and the terminal inflorescences removed (center-budded pot chrysanthemum).

#In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used. The following observations andmeasurements describe plants grown in Oxnard, Calif., under commercial practice in a glass-covered greenhouse with average night temperatures of 18.degree. C., average day temperatures of 30.degree. C., and light levels of 2,000 (cloudy conditions) to 9.000 (sunny conditions) footcandles.

#After sticking unrooted cuttings of the new cultivar, plants received 21 long days/short nights followed by short day/long nights until flowering. Two weeks after the start of the short day/long night treatment, plants received four weekly spray applications of daminozide growth retardant at a rate of 2,500 ppm. Measurements and numerical values represent ranges or averages for six typical flowering plants.

#Botanical classification: Dendranthema grandiflora cultivar Royal Anytime.