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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US PP24,381 P2 Ui (45) Date of Patent: Apr. 8, 2014

(54) CALIBRACHOA PLANT NAMED SAKCAL105 (51) Int. Cl. AOIH 5/00 (2006.01) (50) Latin Name: Calibrachoa spp. (52) U.S. Cl. Varietal Denomination: SAKCAL105 USPC ...... Pt.f413 (58) Field of Classification Search (71) Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation, Yokohama USPC ...... Pt.f413 (JP) See application file for complete search history. (72) Inventor: Akinobu Ui, Iwata (JP) Primary Examiner — Anne Marie Grunberg Assistant Examiner — Keith Robinson (73) Assignee: State Seed Corporation, Yokohama (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — James M. Weatherly; Cochran Freund & Young LLC (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 (57) ABSTRACT U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. A Calibrachoa plant particularly distinguished by having a rosy red color and a compact plant growth habit, is (21) Appl. No.: 13/815,965 disclosed. (22) Filed: Mar 19, 2013 1 Drawing Sheet

1. 2 and species: Calibrachoa spp. 1. Rosy red flower color; and Variety denomination: SAKCAL105. 2. A compact plant growth habit. BACKGROUND OF THE NEW PLANT DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS The present invention comprises a new and distinct variety 5 of Calibrachoa plant, botanically known as Calibrachoa This Calibrachoa plant is illustrated by the accompanying spp., and referred to by the variety name SAKCAL105. photographs which show the overall plant habit SAKCAL 105’ originated from a hybridization in Kakegawa, Japan in 2008 between the female Calibrachoa line 7-1A, including form, foliage, and . The photographs are of an unpatented proprietary hybrid Calibrachoa breeding line 10 a four-month-old plant grown in Salinas, Calif. undergreen having a Scarlet red flower color and mounding growth habit house conditions in the Summer of 2012. The colors shown and the male Calibrachoa line 6dw-54A-2, an unpatented are as true as can be reasonably obtained by conventional proprietary hybrid Calibrachoa breeding line with a yellow photographic procedures. flower color and compact growth habit. In November 2007, the female parent line 7-1A and the FIG. 1 shows the overall plant habit of the plant grown in a male parent line 6dw-54A-2 were crossed and 200 seeds 15 pot. were obtained. In February 2008, the F seed were sown in a FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the mature of the greenhouse, cultivated, and plant lines were produced with plant. flower colors of yellow, rose and purple with compact and mounding growth habits. Two plant lines were selected within the F plants that had yellow and purple flowers and a DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW VARIETY compact plant growth habit. The two plant lines were inter crossed and 900 seeds were obtained. The following detailed descriptions set forth the distinctive In July 2008, 600 seeds were sown in the greenhouse, characteristics of SAKCAL105. The data which define cultivated and plant lines were produced with flower colors of rosy red, yellow, purple and brown and a compact plant these characteristics were collected from asexual reproduc growth habit. A single plant was selected within the F plants 25 tions carried out in Salinas, Calif. Data was collected on that had a rosy red flower color and a compact growth habit four-month-old plants grown undergreenhouse conditions in and designated K2009-049. Salinas, Calif. in the summer of 2012. Color references are to In February 2009, K2009-049 was vegetatively propa The R.H.S. Colour Chart of The Royal Horticultural Society gated, cultivated, and evaluated. In April 2009, K2009-049 of London (R.H.S.), 4' edition (2001). was confirmed to be fixed and stable. K2009-049 was fur 30 ther propagated and cultivated to reconfirm the line's stabil Classification: ity. K2009-049 was subsequently designated Family.—. SAKCAL 105’ and found to have its unique characteristics Botanical.—Calibrachoa spp. reproduce true to type in Successive generations of asexual Common.—Calibrachoa. Vegetative propagation via vegetative cuttings. 35 Designation. SAKCAL105. Parentage: SUMMARY Female parent. Proprietary hybrid Calibrachoa line The following are the most outstanding and distinguishing 7-1A (unpatented). characteristics of this new variety when grown under normal Male parent.—Proprietary hybrid Calibrachoa line horticultural practices in Salinas, Calif. 6dw-54A-2 (unpatented). US PP24,381 P2 4

Growth: Lastingness of individual blooms on the plant.—5 days. Time to produce a rooted cutting.—About 6 weeks. Fragrance.—Absent. Environmental conditions for plant growth. The ter Flower : minal 1.0 to 1.5 inches of an actively growing stem Surface texture. Pubescent. was excised. The vegetative cuttings were propagated 5 Length. 2.0 cm. in five to six weeks. The base of the cuttings were Diameter:-0.5 cm. dipped for 1 to 2 seconds in a 1:9 solution of Dip N Shape.—Ovate. Grow (1 solution: 9 water) root inducing solution Color. RHS 186A (Greyed-Purple). immediately prior to Sticking into the cell trays. Cut- Peduncle: tings were stuck into plastic cell trays having 98 cells, 10 Length.- 0.8 cm. and containing a moistened peat moss-based growing Diameter:—0.1 cm. medium. The cuttings were misted with water from Color. RHS 145B (Yellow-Green). overhead for 10 seconds every 30 minutes until suffi- Surface appearance and texture.—Dull with heavy cient roots were formed. Rooted cuttings were trans- is pubescence; pubescence color is RHS N155A planted and grown in 20-cm diameter plastic pots in a (White). glass greenhouse located in Salinas, California. Pots Corolla: contained a peat moss-based growing medium. Shape.—Composed offive, fused petals to create a fun Soluble fertilizer containing 20% nitrogen, 10% nel-shaped flower with five fissures and a shallow, yet phosphorus and 20% potassium was applied once a 20 prominent, indentation of the petal tip at the midvein. day or every other day by overhead irrigation. Pots Flower diameter:–3.0 cm. were top-dressed with a dry, slow release fertilizer Flower depth.- 0.5 cm. containing 20% nitrogen, 10% phosphorus and 18% Petals. Shape: Bilabiate. Apex: Truncate. Base: Fused. potassium. The typical average air temperature was Margin: Entire. Surface texture (both surfaces): Gla 24°C. 25 brous. Length: 1.0 cm. Width: 1.5 cm. Color: Upper Plant description: surface: Closest to RHS 47A (Red). Lower surface: Habit andform. Compact and branching. Closest to RHS 186A (Greyed-Purple) with RHS Life cycle.—Tender perennial. - 0 Height (from soil line to top of foliage). 7.0 cm. N187A (Greyed-Purple) at midvein. Eye Zone: RHS Spread. 30.0 cm. 30 187A (Greyed-Purple) at petal base. Flowering requirements. Will flower so long as day Corolla tube. Length: 1.0 cm. Diameter: 0.4 cm. length is greater than 12 hours and temperature is Color: Inner surface: RHS 13A (Yellow). Outer sur above 13° C. face: Closest to RHS 4B (Yellow). Temperature tolerances.—Excellent resistance to rain, Calyx: heat, and drought. Plants will not tolerate tempera- 35 Arrangement.—Composed of 5 , free. tures below 10° C. Sepals. Shape: Elliptical. Apex: Obtuse. Margin: Stems: Entire. Color (both surfaces): RHS 143A (Green). General description. Circular in cross-section; dull in Length: 1.0 cm. Diameter: 0.2 cm. appearance. Reproductive organs: Stem length.—12.0 cm. 40 Stamen number:—5. Diameter:—0.15 cm. Stamen color. RHS 154D (Yellow-Green). Internode length (average).-0.5 cm. Stamen form.—Free. Color. RHS 143A (Green). Pollen color. RHS 10B (Yellow). Pubescence.—Slight: pubescence is RHS N155A Pollen amount.—Abundant. (White). 45 Ovary. Superior. Anthocyanin color.—Absent. Placental arrangement.—Central. : Pistill number:-1 (per inflorescence). Arrangement.—Alternate. Pistill length.—0.7 cm. Shape.—Elliptic. Pistill color. RHS 145B (Yellow-Green). Apex. Obtuse. 50 Stigma color. RHS 11A (Yellow). Base.—Attenuate. Style length.—1.0 cm. Margin.—Entire. Style color. RHS 154D (Yellow-Green). Surface appearance (both surfaces). Dull. Seed production.—Absent. Surface pubescence (both surfaces). Slightly pubes- Disease and insect resistance: Plants are susceptible to Bot cent; pubescence is RHS N155A (White). 55 rytis, powdery mildew, various stem and root rots, and Length.—2.8 cm. certain viruses, such as Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Impa Width. 1.8 cm. tiens Necrotic Spotted Virus. Plants can be infested with Color. Upper surface: RHS 147A (Yellow-Green). aphids, leafminers, whitefly, and various Lepidoptera. Lower surface: RHS 147B (Yellow-Green). Venation.—Pinnate. 60 COMPARISON WITH PARENTAL LINES AND Petiole.—Absent; decurrent attachment. KNOWN VARIETY Fragrance.—Absent. Inflorescence: SAKCAL105” is a new and unique variety of Calibrachoa Inflorescence type.—Solitary. owing to its rosy red flower color and compact plant growth Flowering habit.—Indeterminate. 6s habit. SAKCAL105 is distinguished from its parents mainly Time to bloom from propagation.-10 weeks. by flower color as shown in Table 1 below: US PP24,381 P2 5 6

TABLE 1. TABLE 2 Comparison with Parental Lines Comparison with Similar Variety

Female Parent Male Parent Characteristic SAKCAL1 OS USCALI28 Characteristic SAKCAL1 OS 7-1A 6dw-54A-2 5 Flower petal color, Closest to RHS 47A (Red) RHS 53A (Red) Flower color Rosy Red Scarlet Red Yellow upper Surface Plant growth habit Compact Mounding Compact Flower petal color, Closest to RHS 186A (Greyed- RHS 186A lower surface Purple) with RHS N187A (Greyed-Purple) (Greyed-Purple) at midvein 10 Flower size (diameter) 3.0 cm 2.9 cm SAKCAL 105’ is a new and unique variety of Calibrachoa Plant growth habit Compact Semi-upright owing to its rosy red flower color and a compact plant growth habit. SAKCAL105 is most similar to the commercial Cali I claim: brachoa variety USCAL128 (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,847), 1. A new and distinct variety of Calibrachoa plantas shown commercially known as SUPERBELLSR) Red; however 15 and described herein. there are differences as described in Table 2 below. U.S. Patent Apr. 8, 2014 US PP24,381 P2