63. Volume 10- Number 3 - IP Australia
63. Volume 10- Number 3 - IP Australia
63. Volume 10- Number 3 - IP Australia
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
PLANT VARIETIES JOURNAL 1997 VOL <strong>10</strong> NO. 3<br />
RAY FLORET WIDTH (mm)<br />
mean 4.68 8.17<br />
std deviation 0.35 0.94<br />
LSD/sig 1.03 P≤0.01<br />
OSTEOSPERMUM<br />
Osteospermum ecklonis<br />
‘Lusaka’<br />
Application No: 97/053 Accepted: 20 Mar 1997.<br />
Applicant: CAK Sorenson, Abyhot, Denmark.<br />
Agent: Redlands Nursery Pty Ltd, Redland Bay. QLD.<br />
Description (Table 24, Figure 27) Plant: habit upright,<br />
height medium. Flowering shoot: length long. Flower<br />
head: diameter 78mm, number of ray florets 22; disk<br />
diameter <strong>10</strong>mm, colour dark blue (RHS <strong>10</strong>3A); ray floret<br />
colour upperside mid purple violet (RHS 78B), underside<br />
light purple violet (RHS 80C), length 34mm, width 8.6mm,<br />
involucre length 11mm.<br />
Origin Controlled pollination: ‘Pink Fantasy’ x ‘Zimba’.<br />
Breeder: Mr C Sorensen, Abyhot, Denmark. Selection<br />
criteria: flower colour. Propagation: vegetative through<br />
several generations.<br />
Comparative Trial Comparators: ‘Sunny Lady’. Location:<br />
Redlands Nursery Pty Ltd, Redland Bay, QLD Apr 1997 -<br />
Aug 1997. Conditions: plants propagated from cuttings and<br />
grown in 200mm containers, one plant per pot, full sun;<br />
overhead irrigation and standard practices applied as<br />
necessary. Trial design: completely randomised block of 30<br />
replicates. Measurements: distinguishing characters are<br />
recorded on <strong>10</strong> random samples of each variety in Aug 1997.<br />
Prior Applications and Sales Nil<br />
Country Year Status Name Applied<br />
Denmark 1994 granted ‘Lusaka’<br />
Europe 1995 granted ‘Lusaka’<br />
First sold European Community, 1994.<br />
Description: Dr Kerry Bunker, Redlands Nursery Pty Ltd, Redland<br />
Bay, QLD.<br />
Table 24 Osteospermum varieties<br />
‘Lusaka’<br />
*‘Sunny Lady’<br />
PLANT<br />
growth habit upright spreading<br />
height medium short<br />
FLOWERING SHOOT LENGTH (mm)<br />
mean 198 140<br />
std deviation 18.0 9.0<br />
LSD/sig 16.7 P≤0.01<br />
FLOWER HEAD DIAMETER (cm)<br />
mean 7.8 7.1<br />
std deviation 4.0 5.0<br />
LSD/sig 0.6 P≤0.01<br />
DISC DIAMETER (mm)<br />
mean <strong>10</strong>.0 12.0<br />
std deviation 0.6 0.4<br />
LSD/sig 0.6 P≤0.01<br />
RAY FLORET COLOUR<br />
upper side mid purple violet dark purple violet<br />
RHS 78B 80B<br />
distribution even even<br />
underside light purple violet dark purple violet<br />
RHS 80C 79C<br />
PEACH<br />
Prunus persica<br />
‘Tribute’ syn 2083.PJ<br />
Application No: 96/134 Accepted: 22 Jul 1996.<br />
Applicant: Domaine de Castang SA & Arsene Maillard,<br />
Bergerac, France.<br />
Agent: Fleming’s Nurseries and Associates Pty Ltd,<br />
Monbulk, VIC.<br />
Description (Table 25, Figure 33) Plant: small normal tree,<br />
vigour strong. Leaf: size medium, profile convex, base<br />
acute, small angle at the apex, anthocyanin colouration<br />
absent; petiole nectaries present in groups of two or less,<br />
shape round and kidney formed. Flowering shoot: deep red<br />
anthocyanin colouration, bud density medium. Flower:<br />
rosaceous appear late Aug lasting a week; petal five, large,<br />
rounded, pink; calyx orange; stigma same level with anthers<br />
which have pollen. Fruit: size medium, round to oblate,<br />
asymmetrical, tip depressed, suture weak, stalk cavity deep;<br />
skin ground colour yellow, over colour mottled deep<br />
maroon to red-brown, pubescence medium density; flesh<br />
firm, yellow-orange, anthocyanin colouration beneath the<br />
skin absent, in the flesh slightly present, around the stone<br />
definite. Stone: colour medium, size medium, round,<br />
adherence to the flesh weak, split stone absent.<br />
Origin Open pollination: unspecified. Breeders: Arsene<br />
Maillard and Domain de Castang, SA, Bergerac, France.<br />
Selection criteria: differential ripening date to ‘Elegant<br />
Lady, and its more brilliant orange-yellow ground colour.<br />
Propagation: asexual by budding onto peach rootstock<br />
through several generations.<br />
Comparative Trial Comparators: ‘Elegant Lady’, ‘Robin<br />
Neil’. Location: Fleming’s Nurseries, Monbulk, VIC Jun<br />
1993 - Feb 1997. Conditions: trees propagated by budding,<br />
planted into orchards with similar cultural practices. Trial<br />
design: three specimen trees of each variety. Measurements:<br />
20 random samples for each of the varieties.<br />
Prior Applications and Sales Nil.<br />
Description: Zoee Maddox and Graham Fleming, Fleming’s Nurseries<br />
Pty Ltd, Monbulk, VIC.<br />
Table 25 Prunus varieties<br />
‘Tribute’ *‘Elegant *‘Robin<br />
Lady’ Neil’<br />
TREE<br />
size small medium medium<br />
habit erect erect-horizontal erect<br />
vigour high medium high<br />
30