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PLANT VARIETIES JOURNAL 1998 VOL <strong>11</strong> NO. 2<br />

Comparative Trial Comparator: ‘Winter Joy’. Location:<br />

Wonga Park, VIC, Apr-Oct 1997. Conditions: plants<br />

maintained in 150mm containers in pinebark based<br />

medium; grown in the open, full sun with overhead<br />

irrigation; pruned once. Trial design: randomised complete<br />

block with five replicates. Measurements: 20 plants of each<br />

variety.<br />

Prior Applications and Sales<br />

First sold in <strong>Australia</strong> 1997.<br />

Description: Alexander Salmon, Florabella <strong>Australia</strong>, Gapsted, VIC.<br />

Table 46 Erysimum varieties<br />

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‘Lilac Joy’ *‘Winter Joy’<br />

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PLANT HEIGHT(mm)<br />

mean 619.5 510.0<br />

std deviation 33.00 28.10<br />

LSD/sig 26.28 P#0.01<br />

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LEAF LENGTH(mm)<br />

mean 72.4 70.8<br />

std deviation 4.91 5.50<br />

LSD/sig 4.49 ns<br />

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PETAL LENGTH(mm)<br />

mean 19.5 20.5<br />

std deviation 2.21 1.93<br />

LSD/sig 1.78 ns<br />

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PETAL COLOUR (RHS)<br />

main colour 84C 84A<br />

veins 84A 81A<br />

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WATERCRESS<br />

Nasturtium officinale<br />

‘Vicred’<br />

Application no: 97/171 Accepted 12 Sep 1997.<br />

Applicant: Francis D Crowe, Epsom, VIC.<br />

Description (Table 47, Figure 31) Plant: perennial<br />

succulent temperate herb, height small (14.9 cm). Stems:<br />

floating, semi-erect slender, rooting freely at the nodes.<br />

Leaf: juvenile ovate – orbicular; adult odd-pinnate 1-5<br />

leaflets cordate-orbicular; margin crenate-sinuate. Leaf<br />

colour: juvenile purple-grey margin (RHS 187A) balance<br />

green (RHS 137C); adult leaves purple grey (RHS 200A)<br />

throughout interveinal area, green (RHS 137C) nervure.<br />

Inflorescence: raceme of 18-25 flowers. Flower: petals<br />

white (RHS 155D) with a fine purple margin (RHS 74B),<br />

petals twice as long as calyx. Fruit: linear cylindrical<br />

siliqua with convex valves (length 12mm), seed in a single<br />

row.<br />

Origin Spontaneous mutation: Nasturtium officinale ,<br />

1994. Breeder: F. Crowe, Epsom, VIC. Selection criteria:<br />

colour, vigour, foliage density. Propagation: vegetative<br />

root/stem cuttings over 12 propagation cycles.<br />

Comparative Trial Comparator: N. officinale. Location<br />

Epsom, VIC. Nov 1997 – Mar 1998. Conditions: plants<br />

were propagated by stem cuttings raised in standard<br />

hydroponic troughs in 50m plastic greenhouses using<br />

common recirculated hydroponic nutrient solutions,<br />

ambient central Victorian growing conditions. Trial design:<br />

ten paired replicates. Measurements:<br />

specimens from one hundred plants.<br />

Prior Applications and Sales Nil.<br />

Description: David Pullar, Fitzroy, VIC.<br />

ten random<br />

Table 47 Nasturtium varieties<br />

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‘Vicred’<br />

*Nasturtium<br />

officinale<br />

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PLANT HEIGHT (cm)<br />

mean 14.9 20.6<br />

std deviation 3.77 3.89<br />

LSD/sig 4.43 P#0.01<br />

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LEAF SHAPE adult leaf<br />

leaf base shape cordate-orbicular cordate-ovate<br />

leaf margin crenate-sinuate crenate<br />

leaf tip emarginate-obtuse emarginate<br />

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LEAF COLOUR RHS<br />

juvenile leaf margin 187A 137C<br />

juvenile nervure 137C 137C<br />

adult interveinal area 187A<br />

137C<br />

(underside 138B)<br />

adult nervure 137C 137C<br />

(underside 138B)<br />

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FLOWER COLOUR RHS<br />

body of petal 155D 155D<br />

petal margin 74B 155D<br />

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LEAF LENGTH (mm) including petiole<br />

mean 5.81 6.77<br />

std deviation 1.05 1.46<br />

LSD/sig 0.85 P#0.01<br />

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LEAF WIDTH (mm)<br />

mean 2.34 2.52<br />

std deviation 0.38 0.38<br />

LSD/sig 0.14 P#0.01<br />

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WAXFLOWER<br />

Chamelaucium uncinatum<br />

‘Cascade Brilliance’<br />

Application No: 96/200 Accepted: 20 Sep 1996.<br />

Applicant: A J Newport and Son Pty Ltd, Winmalee,<br />

NSW.<br />

Description (Table 48, Figure 32) Plant: short, narrow<br />

width, erect. Stem: medium to thick, immature colour near<br />

apex RHS 150B. Leaf: thickness thick, length medium,<br />

apex slightly hooked, longitudinal furrowing absent, upper<br />

surface rounded, upper surface colour RHS 146A.<br />

Flowering time: early to medium. Flower: arrangement<br />

broad distal, density high, diameter medium to large. Bud:<br />

main colour with bud cap RHS 160D, without bud cap<br />

RHS 2D. Petal: colour when first opened and at mid<br />

maturity RHS 155A. Flower nectary colour when flower<br />

newly opened and at mid maturity RHS 144B. Staminodia:<br />

outline medium triangular, immature tip colour RHS<br />

155A-B, mature tip colour RHS 155A-B, collar colour<br />

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