Delosperma Fig Fusion Compact Floriferous Cultivar
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Delosperma cultivars lack uniform blooming periods and compact, floriferous growth habits, leading to inconsistent performance in landscape and container applications.
Innovation Solution
The development of the Delosperma 'Fig Fusion' cultivar, resulting from a controlled cross between an unnamed proprietary plant and pooled Delosperma pollen, exhibits a floriferous blooming habit with hot pink flowers, compact growth, and uniform rooting, maintaining strong re-blooming throughout the growing season and into late fall.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing Delosperma cultivars are used, then they can be grown in landscape and container applications, but they lack uniform blooming periods and compact growth habits resulting in inconsistent performance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and breeding plants with specific genetic traits that control blooming time and plant architecture. Through controlled crosses and selection, the cultivar 'Fig Fusion' was developed with standardized blooming periods and compact growth habits, transforming the variable parameters of existing cultivars into consistent, uniform characteristics across the population.
2Quantity of substance
If Delosperma cultivars are bred for larger size, then they may produce more flowers, but they become less suitable for container applications and require more space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by concentrating floral production in a compact space. The 'Fig Fusion' cultivar develops dense clusters of flowers on compact, mounded growth habit, allowing high flower quantity (average of 47 flowers per plant) within a small volume (6 cm height, 21 cm diameter). This creates a localized concentration of flowering tissue that maximizes floral display without requiring large plant size.
3Volume of moving object
If Delosperma cultivars are bred for compact growth, then they are more suitable for containers, but they may produce fewer flowers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies copying through asexual propagation by tip stem cuttings. This method produces genetically identical clones of the selected 'Fig Fusion' plant, ensuring that the compact growth habit and high flower production traits are replicated consistently across multiple plants. The copying process maintains the optimized balance between small size and high floral output without genetic variation.
4Duration of action of moving object
If Delosperma cultivars have extended blooming periods, then they provide longer ornamental value, but they may exhaust plant energy reserves and reduce overall plant health
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies periodic action through strong re-blooming capability during the entire growing season and into late fall. The 'Fig Fusion' cultivar exhibits multiple flowering cycles rather than a single extended bloom, allowing the plant to rest and replenish energy reserves between flowering periods. This periodic flowering pattern maintains ornamental value throughout the season while preserving plant health and vigor.
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AI summary
A new cultivar of Delosperma plant named ‘Fig Fusion’ that is characterized by that is characterized by its floriferous blooming habit, its hot pink flowers, its very compact and tight mounds of foliage that do not become long or leggy during the summer growing months, its strong re-blooming habit during the entire growing season and into late fall, its small plant size, its uniform rooting habit, and its uniform blooming period with other plants in the series.