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PLANT VARIETIES JOURNAL 2001 VOL <strong>14</strong> NO. 2<br />

‘Festival’<br />

Application No: 1999/032 Accepted: 24 Feb 1999.<br />

Applicant: Yellow Rock Native Nursery Pty Ltd,<br />

Winmalee, NSW.<br />

Characteristics (Table 5 and Fig 25) Plant: upright, bushy,<br />

evergreen, small tree. Leaves: opposite, trifoliate, flat,<br />

waxy. Leaflets: length medium (mean 54.26mm), width<br />

medium (mean 15.98mm), shape elliptic, apex acute (point<br />

rounded), base oblique-attenuate, upper surface dark green,<br />

lower leaf surface lighter green, margin serrated, colour of<br />

new growth bronzed red with a green midrib. Flowers:<br />

small, creamy white in terminal panicles. Sepals: 4-5<br />

broadly obovate, sepal-circle mean diameter 22.98mm,<br />

white at first (Nov), ripening (mid Dec) to deep red (RHS<br />

46A) on inside of sepal, and rose red (RHS 47B) on outside<br />

of sepal. (Note: all colour chart numbers refer to 1995<br />

edition.)<br />

Origin and Breeding Controlled pollination: seed parent<br />

‘Christmas Belle’ x pollen parent ‘Albery’s Red’. The seed<br />

parent is characterised by having attractive bell shaped deep<br />

red fruit but with a tendency for flower drop and micro<br />

nutrient deficiencies in the foliage. The pollen parent is<br />

characterised by abundant early season orange-red fruit and<br />

vigorous stable growth. Hybridisation took place at Yellow<br />

Rock Native Nursery, Winmalee, NSW in Oct 1992. Seed<br />

was germinated in Feb 1993 in seedling trays and tubed in<br />

Oct 1993, and grown on in 200mm pots until flowering and<br />

fruit set in Dec 1996. ‘Festival’ was selected on basis of<br />

vigorous, upright growth habit and fruit size, colour and<br />

vase life. Propagation: ‘Festival’ was propagated through<br />

five generations and found to be stable. Breeder: Neil Kirby<br />

and Tony Foster, Yellow Rock Native Nursery Pty Ltd,<br />

Winmalee, NSW.<br />

Choice of Comparators Both seed and pollen parents,<br />

‘Christmas Belle’ and ‘Albery’s Red’ were chosen as<br />

comparators on the basis of foliage and fruit colour.<br />

‘Festival’ differs from ‘Albery’s Red’ in its upright plant<br />

habit, larger leaflets and intensely deep red fruit. ‘Festival’<br />

differs from ‘Christmas Belle’ in its upright plant habit,<br />

darker green foliage, larger leaflets, and deeper red fruit.<br />

‘VIC 90-1’ was not considered because of its variegated<br />

foliage and different coloured fruit.<br />

Comparative Trials Location: Yellow Rock Native<br />

Nursery Pty Ltd, Winmalee, NSW. Nov 1999-Dec 2000<br />

Conditions: Trials conducted in open, full sun. Plants<br />

propagated from cuttings, rooted cuttings planted in 200mm<br />

pots containing commercial potting media dripper irrigated<br />

spacing at 30cm, nutrition, pest and disease treatment as<br />

required. Trial design: twenty plants of each variety<br />

arranged in a completely randomised design.<br />

Measurements: From ten plants of each variety chosen<br />

randomly.<br />

Prior Applications and Sales<br />

No prior applications. First sold in <strong>Australia</strong> in Mar 1998.<br />

Description: Neil Kirby, Yellow Rock Native Nursery, Winmalee, NSW.<br />

30<br />

Table 5 Ceratopetalum varieties<br />

‘Bill ‘Festival’ *‘Albery’s *‘Christmas<br />

Winter’ Red’ Belle’<br />

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PLANT HABIT<br />

upright upright spreading n/a<br />

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PETAL COLOUR (RHS, 1995)<br />

inside 180B 46A 180A 180CD<br />

outside 180C 47B 180B 47C<br />

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FLOWER DIAMETER mm (LSD P≤0.01 = 1.66)<br />

mean 19.654b 22.976c 22.193c 17.301a<br />

std deviation 1.07 1.97 1.46 1.94<br />

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LEAFLET LENGTH mm (LSD P≤0.01 = 8.05)<br />

mean 61.97b 54.26ab 50.71c <strong>47.</strong>23a<br />

std deviation 6.68 7.29 10.12 5.13<br />

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LEAFLET WIDTH mm (LSD P≤0.01 = 2.94)<br />

mean 15.96b 15.98b 12.33ab 11.05a<br />

std deviation 3.43 2.37 2.54 1.42<br />

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Note: mean values followed by the same letters are not significantly<br />

different at P≤0.01 according to DMRT.<br />

Chrysanthemum hybrid<br />

Chrysanthemum<br />

‘UoM95-105-6’<br />

Application No: 2000/340 Accepted: 1 Mar 2001.<br />

Applicant: Regents of the University of Minnesota,<br />

Minneapolis, USA.<br />

Agent: Anthony Tesselaar Plants Pty Ltd, Silvan, VIC.<br />

Characteristics (Table 6, Figure 17) Plant: height medium.<br />

Stem: internode length short, diameter medium, colour<br />

green (RHS 138B) anthocyanin colouration absent, strength<br />

medium-strong. Lateral shoot: attachment to the stem<br />

medium, angle between lateral shoot and stem medium.<br />

Peduncle: thickness medium, length of terminal flower<br />

head short. Stipule: size small. Leaf: length medium, width<br />

narrow to medium, length to width ratio medium, thickness<br />

medium, texture leathery, dissection strong, colour upper<br />

side green (RHS <strong>14</strong>7A), length of lower lobe short, shape of<br />

base of sinus between lateral lobes round, claw in base of<br />

sinus between lateral lobes absent, margins of sinus<br />

between lateral lobes parallel to diverging, shape of base<br />

obtuse, shape of apex cuspidate. Inflorescence:<br />

corymbiform. Flower head: diameter large, height from<br />

involucral bracts to top of flower head medium, type semidouble,<br />

number of involucral bracts 5 or less, involucral<br />

bracts among ray florets absent. Ray Floret: longitudinal<br />

axis of majority of florets slightly twisted, length of corolla<br />

tube short, cross section of ray concave, keel present (2),<br />

length of outer florets long, width of outer florets medium,<br />

ratio length to width, high, shape of tip dentate, colour of<br />

outer side of majority of ray florets RHS 181C (at stage 6),<br />

colour of inner side of majority of ray florets RHS 173B (at<br />

stage 6), colour of inner side of majority of ray florets when<br />

faded RHS 186C (at stage 10), number medium, texture<br />

smooth. Disc: diameter medium-large, distribution of disc<br />

florets type 4. Disc floret: length long, type tubular, colour<br />

RHS <strong>14</strong>9B. Receptacle: diameter medium, shape domed.<br />

Natural season of flowering: early.

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