대륜계통의 자주색 반겹꽃 다수성 절화용 거베라 ‘Symphony’ 품종 육성

A new gerbera cultivar ‘Symphony’ was bred by the National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science (NIHHS) in 2010. Pink flowered cultivar ‘Basic’, which has semi-double flower type and green center, and purple flowered cultivar ‘Mephisto’, which has single flower type and dark center, were crossed from Oct. 2006 to Feb. 2007. Among 185 off-springs from this cross, ‘Symphony’ was selected specially for the use of cut flower production after investigation of the phenotypic characteristic survey for four years (from 2007 to 2010). ‘Symphony’ was a vigorous standard gerbera cultivar with brilliant purple flower color (RHS, RPN66B) and black center disc floret. It had semi-double flower type. Its average flower diameter was 11.8 cm, and its inner ray floret and disc floret diameters were 6.6 cm and 3.2 cm, respectively. The number of outer ray floret was 68.4, approximately 13.2 more than the standard cultivar ‘Mephisto’. It had a thick peduncle width of which upper and lower part were 4.4 mm and 6.6 mm, respectively, and adequate peduncle height, 50.7 cm. The vase life of ‘Symphony’ was 9.9 days, similar with the standard cultivar. It’s average yield was 50.1 stems per plant, approximately 2.6 stems more than the standard cultivar.