The present invention comprises a new Ageratum, botanically known as Ageratum houstonanium, and hereinafter referred to by the variety name ‘Agros’.
‘Agros’ is a product of a planned breeding program. The new cultivar ‘Agros’ has purple flowers, early and continuously flowering and has a habit that is compact, upright while mounded and is freely branching.
‘Agros’ originated from a hybridization in a controlled breeding program in Enkhuizen, Netherlands. The female parent was an unpatented seedling identified as ‘X52-2’ with light purple color. ‘X52-2’ has a more vigorous habit than ‘Agros’.
The male parent of ‘Agros’ was an unpatented hybrid seedling identified as ‘54-1’ with purple color. ‘54-1’ has a more vigorous habit than ‘Agros’.
‘Agros’ was selected as one flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in August 2003. The pollination took place in September 2002 and the seed sowing in March 2003, all in a controlled environment in Enkhuizen, Netherlands.
The first act of asexual reproduction of ‘Agros’ was accomplished when vegetative cuttings were taken from the initial selection in August 2003 in a controlled environment in Enkhuizen, Netherlands.
Horticultural examination of plants grown from cuttings of the plant initiated in early spring 2004 in Enkhuizen, Netherlands; Gilroy, Calif. USA; and Angers, France, and continuing thereafter, has demonstrated that the combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for ‘Agros’ are firmly fixed and are retained through successive generations of asexual reproduction.
‘Agros’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary significantly with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity and day length.
A Plant Breeder's Right for this cultivar was granted in the European Union on Oct. 22, 2007. ‘Agros’ has not been made publicly available more than one year prior to the filing of this application.