44. Volume 15- Number 2 - IP Australia

DESCRIPTIONS
PLANT VARIETIES JOURNAL 2002 VOL 15 NO. 2
Table 4 Alstroemeria varieties
‘Napoli’ *‘Ballet’ A *‘Sydney’
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STEM CHARACTERISTICS
length short medium medium
thickness medium thin medium
density of foliage
medium to dense medium to
dense
dense
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LEAF CHARACTERISTICS
length short to medium medium
medium
shape of blade elliptic narrow elliptic narrow elliptic
longitudinal axis of blade
straight straight recurved
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INFLORESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS
number of umbel branches
medium to medium medium
many
length of umbels
very short medium short
to short
pedicel length long medium short
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FLOWER CHARACTERISTICS
main colour red purple red purple red purple
spread of tepals small to medium medium
medium
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OUTER TEPAL CHARACTERISTICS
depth of emargination
shallow medium n/a
main colour (RHS 1986)
64A 72B 70B,71B
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INNER LATERAL TEPAL CHARACTERISTICS
main colour of middle zone (RHS 1986)
pale yellow 3A 3A
number of stripes
medium medium many
stripe thickness medium small n/a
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OTHER FLOWER CHARACTERISTICS
filament colour purple purple red purple
anther colour purplish greenish yellow green
style colour purple n/a n/a
stigma colour purple n/a n/a
spots on stigma present absent absent
anthocyanin in ovary
weak to medium medium
medium
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‘Zanysia’ syn Alysia
Application No: 2002/063 Accepted: 8 Jun 2002.
Applicant: Van Zanten Plants B.V., Aalsmeer, The
Netherlands.
Agent: F & I Baguley Flower & Plant Growers, Clayton
South, VIC.
Characteristics (Table 5, Figure 25) Plant: stem length
medium, stem thickness medium, density of foliage
medium. Leaf: length short to medium, width medium,
shape of blade elliptic, longitudinal axis of blade straight.
Inflorescence: number of branches in umbel medium,
length of branches in umbel short, length of pedicel
medium. Flower: main colour pink and white, size medium
to large, spread of tepals large. Outer tepal: shape of blade
broad obovate, depth of emargination very shallow, stripes
on inner side of blade absent, colour red purple RHS 62A,
57C at the apex and upper margins and white at centre and
base. Inner lateral tepals: shape of blade obovate, colour red
purple RHS 62A at the apex and white at centre and base,
number of stripes medium, thickness of stripes small to
medium. Inner median tepal: yellow colour absent, stripes
absent. Stamens: filament colour red-purple, spots absent,
anther colour yellowish. Pistil: ovary anthocyanin
colouration medium, colour of style red-purple, colour of
stigma red-purple, spots on stigma absent. (Note: all RHS
numbers referred to in local observation were based on the
1986 edition.)
Origin and Breeding Controlled pollination: seed parent
90394-2 x pollen parent HA08, in a planned breeding
program at the applicant’s research station at Hillegom, The
Netherlands. Both parents are non-commercial varieties
within the breeding programme. Selection criteria: from
this cross ‘Zanysia’ was chosen on the basis of flower
colour, stem production and quality. Propagation: a number
of mature stock plants were generated from the original
seedling by tissue culture through 10 generations to confirm
uniformity and stability. ‘Zanysia’ will be commercially
propagated by tissue culture. Breeder: Paul Schoorl,
Aalsmeer, The Netherlands.
Choice of Comparators The grouping characteristics used
in identifying the most similar varieties of common
knowledge were – Flower: main colour red-purple on apex
and margins and white at the centre and base of the outer
tepals. On the basis of these grouping characteristics,
‘Andes’ A (PVJ 8.1) and ‘Vienna’ A (PVJ 8.3) were
considered as the most similar varieties of common
knowledge. Initially, ‘Pink Diamond’ A (formerly
‘Testapink’ syn Pink Diamond, PVJ 12.4), ‘Stabec’ A syn
Rebecca A (PVJ 9.1) and ‘Java’ (PVJ 8.3) were also
considered as comparators but were excluded as they differ
in the amount and location of the red purple colour.
Comparative Trial Comparisons of most of the
characteristics are based on Dutch trials, which were
assessed under conditions of controlled environment in
glasshouses. Characteristics of the comparators are derived
from published descriptions in the Plant Varieties Journal.
Detailed flower descriptions of the candidate variety are
based on plants growing in a soil in a multispan polyhouse
at Bunyip, VIC. Flowers from these plants were cut in bud
in Apr 2002 and transferred to Devon Meadows, VIC and
placed in a solution of 5% sugar and 1 ml/l chlorine bleach.
The flowers were assessed 3 to 4 days later.
Prior Applications and Sales
Country Year Current Status Name Applied
The Netherlands 1999 Granted ‘Zanysia’
EU 2000 Granted ‘Zanysia’
USA 2000 Applied ‘Zanysia’
Japan 2000 Applied ‘Zanysia’
First sold in The Netherlands in May 2000. First Australian
sale nil.
Description: David Nichols, Rye, VIC.
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