Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Zanmuflamincran’

A Crysanthemum plant named ‘Zanmuflamincran’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with red-purple ray florets and prolific branching; natural season flower date September 6 (week 36) ; blooming for a period of 5 weeks.

RELATED CULTIVARS

The new plant is related to ‘Zanmuflamin’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 20,589). The new cultivar is a mutant of ‘Zanmuflamin’.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar ofChrysanthemumplant, botanically known asChrysanthemum×morifoliumRamat., commercially known as a garden mum, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar denomination ‘Zanmuflamincran’. The new plant is a product of a breeding and selection program which had the objective of finding color mutants from existing parent plants. The new plant comprises a whole plant mutant of the parentChrysanthemumnamed ‘Zanmuflamin’. Plants from the new cultivar ‘Zanmuflamincran’ differ from plants of the female parent in the color of the ray-florets. The color is red-purple in the mutant, while it is purple in the parent.

The new cultivar was discovered as a color mutant in September 2006 by Wilhelmus Bemardus Blom in a controlled environment (greenhouse) in Rijsenhout, The Netherlands. The first act of asexual reproduction of ‘Zanmuflamincran’ was accomplished when after planting of the mutant as a motherplant in Rijsenhout; vegetative cuttings from this mutant were taken and propagated further. The new cultivar has been found to retain its distinctive characteristics through successive propagations.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The observations and measurements were gathered from plants grown out door in Rijsenhout, The Netherlands, under natural day length and temperature and planted in week 23 in 2010. The natural blooming date of this crop was September (week 36). The average height of the plants was 35 cm. No gowth retardants were used. No tests were done on disease or insects resistance or susceptibility. No tests were done on cold or drought resistance. This new variety produces medium sized blooms with red-purple ray florets blooming for a period of 5 weeks.

From the cultivars known to inventor the most similar existing cultivar in comparison to ‘Zanmuflamincran’ are its parent ‘Zanmuflamin’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 20,589), and another colour mutant ‘Zanmuflaminpine’, developed from the same parent (U.S. Plant Patent Application Pending) . When ‘Zanmuflamin’ and ‘Zanmuflamincran’, ‘Zanmuflaminpine’ are being compared the following difference is noticed: The ray florets of ‘Zanmuflamin’ are purple colored, while those of ‘Zanmuflamincran’ are red-purple and those of ‘Zanmuflaminpine’ are salmon colored.

The following is a description of the plant and characteristics that distinguish ‘Zanmuflamincran’ as a new and distinct variety.

The color designations are taken from the plant itself. Accordingly, any discrepancies between the color designations and the colors depicted in the photographs are due to photographic tolerances. The color chart used in this description is: The Royal Horticultural Society Colour chart, edition 2001.