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Scientific Papers Series B Horticulture

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Figure 4. Excelsa (H 18/1)Description‘Candida Ali’ cultivar has a delicate color offlorets (dark pink bronze with intense pinkneck, white stripes) and it is currently a popularcultivar on the market (Table 1). It is an earlymidseason bloomer in Transylvania area. Theflowers are bell-shaped when open and havegood longevity in the vase as cut flowers. It hasa good vigor (112.1 cm), a long spike andprolific corm producer (115 cormels/corm)which facilitates multiplication (Table 3).The performances of the new cultivars werecompared with a very popular cultivar inRomania, ‘Priscilla’ which is also one of theparents in the cross-breeding process.In 2009 the cultivar ‘Candida Ali’ received aDiploma and Silver Medal at the InternationalSalon of Research and Invent ‘PROINVENT’Cluj-Napoca.CultivarsTable 1. Morphological characteristics of the new Gladiolus cultivarsFlower colorFloretshapeSpotAnothercolorCultivarsDays tofloweringfrom plantingTable 2. Quantitative characteristics of the new gladiolus cultivarsPlantheight(cm)Spikelength(cm)No. offlorets/flowerFlowerwidth(cm)UseNo. of simultaneously floweringfloretsCandida Ali 77 112.1 74.0 15.4 11.5 5.7 5.4Excelsa 66 100.4 45.0 14.3 11.4 5.2 5.0Dark pink bronze with intense pink neck,Cut flower, border or group inCandida AliRound yes purplewhite stripesthe fieldExcelsa Purple red with white narrow Round none white Landscape designCut flowerPriscillacontrolLight rose with dark rose lines Round yes white rose Cut flower, gardenPriscillacontrolVaselife(days)82 121.3 86.2 15.0 11.5 5.1 4.7Table 3. Corm productivities of new Gladiolus cultivarsCultivars No. of cormel/plant Circumference of corm (cm) Corm weight(g)Candida Ali 115 14.4 42.5Excelsa 42 13.8 33.7Priscilla-control 65 14.0 41.3301

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