Delosperma Tangerine Tango Compact Groundcover Breeding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Delosperma cultivars lack a consistent and compact blooming habit, with variations in flower number and duration, and often become leggy during summer months, making them less suitable as uniform groundcovers.
Innovation Solution
The development of 'Tangerine Tango', a Delosperma hybrid with a floriferous blooming habit, compact growth, and uniform rooting, characterized by red-orange flowers with white centers, dense foliage, and a strong re-blooming habit throughout the growing season, achieved through controlled crossing and asexual propagation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If existing Delosperma cultivars are grown for landscape use, then they provide groundcover function, but they become leggy during summer months and lack compact growth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and breeding plants with specific genetic parameters that control growth habit and compactness. The cultivar 'Tangerine Tango' exhibits a compact mounded form with controlled height (5-15 cm) and spread (15-30 cm), representing optimized physical parameters achieved through selective breeding to maintain compact growth while preventing leggy appearance during summer months.
2Productivity
If existing Delosperma cultivars are grown for landscape use, then they provide groundcover function, but they exhibit variations in flower number and blooming duration, lacking consistent blooming habit
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by optimizing genetic parameters controlling flowering through controlled cross-breeding. The resulting cultivar 'Tangerine Tango' demonstrates reliable consistency with an average of 65 flowers per plant and uniform blooming period, representing stabilized quantitative parameters achieved through selective breeding that ensures predictable productivity and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies feedback mechanisms through systematic observation and selection of parent plants based on their blooming performance. The breeder evaluated parent plants for flower number, blooming duration, and habit, then selected parents that would produce offspring with improved and consistent blooming characteristics, using this feedback loop to achieve reliable uniformity in the final cultivar.
3Manufacturing precision
If existing Delosperma cultivars are grown for landscape use, then they provide groundcover function, but they lack uniform characteristics across plants
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by conducting controlled cross-breeding between specifically selected parent plants before mass propagation. The breeder performed preliminary selection of parent plants with desirable traits, executed controlled crosses to establish uniform genetics, and then propagated the selected cultivar through cuttings to ensure uniformity across all produced plants, achieving manufacturing precision through advance genetic stabilization.
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AI summary
A new cultivar of Delosperma plant named ‘Tangerine Tango’ that is characterized by its floriferous blooming habit, its red-orange flowers with white centers, 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.