Blushing Turtle Geranium Hybrid for Drought Tolerance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing Geranium cultivars lack repeat flowering capability and drought tolerance, resulting in suboptimal garden performance and limited adaptability to varying environmental conditions.

Innovation Solution

A new Geranium hybrid cultivar, 'Blushing Turtle', bred through cross-pollination of Geranium sanguineum with Geranium×oxonianum 'Julie Brennan' or Geranium asphodeloides, exhibiting upright growth, large purple-violet flowers, continuous flowering, and improved drought tolerance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional Geranium cultivars are used, then the plant structure is simple and easy to cultivate, but they lack repeat flowering capability and drought tolerance

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverepeat flowering capabilityVSAvoidplant genetic structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies hybridization to combine genetic material from multiple Geranium species (Geranium sanguineum, Geranium×oxonianum, and Geranium asphodeloides) to create a composite genetic structure. This hybrid approach integrates beneficial traits from parent species including repeat flowering capability, drought tolerance, and disease resistance, while maintaining a stable inherited structure that reproduces true to type through vegetative propagation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

2Adaptability or versatility

If existing Geranium cultivars are used, then the cultivation process is simple, but garden performance and adaptability are suboptimal

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveenvironmental adaptabilityVSAvoidbreeding complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies selective breeding to enhance specific local qualities or traits in the Geranium hybrid, including repeat flowering capability, drought tolerance, disease resistance, and flower size. This targeted improvement of specific characteristics while maintaining overall plant simplicity allows the cultivar to adapt to various environmental conditions without significantly complicating cultivation procedures

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Area of moving object

If parent cultivars are used, then the plant structure is simple, but flower size and foliage size are smaller

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflower sizeVSAvoidgenetic inheritance structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of moving objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges beneficial traits from multiple parent species through hybridization, combining the large flower and foliage characteristics from Geranium asphodeloides with the repeat flowering capability from Geranium sanguineum and other desirable traits from Geranium×oxonianum. This consolidation of traits produces a hybrid with significantly larger flowers and foliage while maintaining a stable genetic structure that reproduces true to type

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUSPP22376P2Geranium plant named `Blushing Turtle`

Publication Date: 2011.12.20 KOSICK KARIN

AI summary

A new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant named ‘Blushing Turtle’, characterized by its upright, low spreading and rounded plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; large purple violet-colored flowers with red purple-colored venation; long and continuous flowering period; and good garden performance.