The Development of "New Ornamental Plants" in Europe

Hentig, W.-U. von

doi:10.17660/actahortic.1995.397.1

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“…To capture the market, plants not only need to be produced environmentally, and economically but also need to be well publicised (von Hentig 1995). Often plants are reinvented to suit the market.…”

Section: Reinventing Plants For Novel Usesmentioning

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New Ornamental Plants for Horticulture

Seaton

Bettin

Grüneberg

2014

Horticulture: Plants for People and Places, Volume 1

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Introduction of new plants is critical to the survival and profitability of the horticultural industries. These provide a marketing edge and can offer real benefits in terms of utilisation to fill special needs, such as providing screening a residential area from traffic noise, using living walls of plants, or providing an area to remove nutrient run-off from suburbia and prevent nitrification of sensitive wetlands. This chapter discusses the diversity of plants in the world's biomes from tropical, cool and warm temperate forests to deserts and alpine tundra environments. It covers a wide diversity of new plant material that includes the magnolia ( Magnolia spp.), the Christmas poinsettia ( Euphorbia pulcherrima), the conifers (pines, firs and cedars), the holly ( Ilex spp.) to the diverse and unusual Australian and African xerophytic wildflowers such as the banksias ( Banksia spp.), and kangaroo paws ( Anigozanthos and Macropidia spp.). There has been a world history of discovery and selecting plants from known plant hot spots. This search started in earnest from the 1500s and continues to the present day with collectors looking to find new forms and colours and to introduce new qualities into established plants. It also introduces the developments in breeding new cultivars from existing genomes, including straight crossing to cellular techniques. Introducing a new plant is a complex process involving a number of steps from establishing a market, meeting production requirements to ensuring that the new plant survives and flourishes, often in a different environment to its native habitat and can involve use of greenhouse and chemical treatments. Considerable research has been expended on tailoring production management systems best suited to a particular plant given the diverse range of plant responses possible. This involves the development of propagation techniques such as tissue culture where cutting propagation fails, and the development of correct irrigationand nutrient scheduling to maximise production and manage growth stages. It also involves ensuring the plant achieves the level of performance expected in terms of vase life or yield and maintaining the right form and colour. These requirements are particularly critical where trade and transport is involved. An area often difficult to get right is to ensure that the new plant is actively protected, ensuring that the investment is properly rewarded and provides value to ensure continuation of further plant development.

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Section: Reinventing Plants For Novel Usesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Ornamental Plants for Horticulture

Seaton

Bettin

Grüneberg

2014

Horticulture: Plants for People and Places, Volume 1

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“…Floriculture is probably the most competitive sector of agriculture since many different plant species are produced and marketed [1,2]. To stand the global competitiveness and meet consumers' demand for cut flowers, the ornamental industry frequently introduces new flower crops with special features [1,2]. Typically, the native flora of different regions serves as a reservoir from which new floricultural species originate, and annually, hundreds of new wild plant species are evaluated worldwide for their potential to compete in the ornamental plant market.…”

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Vase Life Evaluation of Three Greek Tulip Species Compared with a Commercial Cultivar

Lykas,

Zografou,

Samartza

et al. 2023

Horticulturae

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Aiming at evaluating new candidate species for the cut flower market of Greece and beyond, in this study, the vase life of three Greek tulip plant species, Tulipa cretica ‘Hilde’ (CRH, local endemic of Crete, Greece), T. clusiana ‘Chrysantha’ (CLC, naturalized in Chios Island, Greece), and T. australis (AUS, native in the Mediterranean and Greece), was investigated in comparison to the commercial tulip hybrid Île-de-France (IDF). To this end, pre-cooled at 4 °C bulbs of the abovementioned Greek tulip plant species were bought from Dutch nurseries and grown in pots placed in unheated greenhouses located at two different climatic conditions in Northern Greece. The plants were uprooted when the flowers reached a slightly open stage. Half of the flowering stems were immediately placed into bottles with deionized water, while the rest were placed in a preservative solution containing citric acid 5% and sulfuric acid 1% and then remained under laboratory conditions until the entire tepal wilted (end of vase life). The measurements performed concerned: (a) flower stem length and flower maximum diameter, (b) fresh weight (FW) of initial stems, leaves, flowers, and bulbs and at the end of vase life, (c) flower color parameters (L, a, b, c, and H) in all treated flowers, (d) leaf chlorophyll content (SPAD values), and (e) initial and final water volume after removing the flowering stems. The aforementioned measurements showed that CRH cut flowers may exhibit consistent floral opening patterns and were associated with a long mean vase life of 5.7 days, which can be further prolonged to 6.5 days by carefully selecting a cultivation location with proper climatic conditions. The vase life of CLC cut flowers was significantly affected by the climatic parameters (temperature) of the area where the plants were cultivated. The immersion of cut flowering stems in a preservative solution with citric and sulfuric acids did not yield a notable increase in the longevity of cut flowers during the postharvest period. Moreover, this treatment did not have any significant impact on leaf chlorophyll content or flower color at the end of the flowers’ vase life. The data of this work show that cut flowers from the native species T. cretica and T. clusiana have satisfactory vase life, especially when plants were grown in favorable climate condition; the latter is an important criterion for their entry into the cut flower market.

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Oxalis adenophylla Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.

Ochoa

Ladio

2018

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World

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The Development of "New Ornamental Plants" in Europe

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New Ornamental Plants for Horticulture

New Ornamental Plants for Horticulture

Vase Life Evaluation of Three Greek Tulip Species Compared with a Commercial Cultivar

Oxalis adenophylla Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.

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