Latin name of the genus and species:Geraniumxcantabrigiense.

Variety denomination: ‘INTENSE’.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The new cultivar was selected as a single seedling plant discovered in a field of various unpatentedGeraniumxcantabrigiensevarieties. The parent varieties cannot be identified.

The new variety was found and selected by the inventor in 2015 in a nursery field in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. After identifying the new variety as a potentially interesting selection, the inventor continued confidential trial growing of ‘INTENSE’ to assess the stability of characteristics unique to this variety.

Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar ‘INTENSE’ was first performed during 2015 at a nursery in Noordwijk, the Netherlands by vegetative cuttings. Through subsequent propagation multiple additional generations have been reproduced, having shown that the unique features of this cultivar are stable and reproduced true to type.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The cultivar ‘INTENSE’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, day length, and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype.

The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘INTENSE’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘INTENSE’ as a new and distinctGeraniumcultivar:1. Bright pink flowers.2. Spreading, mounding habit.3. Green leaves with red coloration in Autumn.4. Very floriferous plants.

PARENT COMPARISON

Parent varieties are unknown.

COMMERCIAL COMPARISON

Geranium‘INTENSE’ can be compared to compared to the commercial varietyGeranium‘Karmina’, unpatented. Plants of ‘INTENSE’ are similar to plants of ‘Karmina’ in most horticultural characteristics, however, plants of ‘INTENSE’ differ in the following:1. Flowers of ‘INTENSE’ are a darker, brighter pink than flowers of ‘Karmina’.

‘INTENSE’ can be compared to compared to the commercial varietyGeranium‘Cambridge’, unpatented. Plants of ‘INTENSE’ are similar to plants of ‘Cambridge’ in most horticultural characteristics, however, plants of however, plants of ‘INTENSE’ differ in the following:1. Flowers of ‘INTENSE’ are darker, brighter pink than flowers of ‘Cambridge’.

‘INTENSE’ can be compared to compared to the commercial varietyGeranium‘ABPP’, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 20,809. Plants of ‘INTENSE’ are similar to plants of ‘ABPP’, in most horticultural characteristics, however, plants of however, plants of ‘INTENSE’ differ in the following:1. Flowers of ‘INTENSE’ are a darker, brighter pink than flowers of ‘ABPP’.2. Plants of ‘INTENSE’ are more compact than plants of ‘ABPP’.

