plant named ‘Talk Show’

Botanical designation:

Cultivar denomination: ‘TALK SHOW’. CROSS-REFERENCED TO CLOSELY-RELATED APPLICATIONS:

A European Community Plant Breeder's Rights application for the instant plant was filed by the Applicant/Assignee, Floricultura B.V. of Heemskerk, The Netherlands on Jun. 7, 2024, application number 2024/1307. Foreign priority is not claimed to this application.

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar ofplant, botanically known as, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Talk Show’.

The newplant is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Assendelft and Heemskerk, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program is to develop new fast-growing and freely floweringplants with good leaf shape and flowers with unique and attractive patterns and coloration.

The newplant originated from a cross-pollination in January, 2014 in Assendelft, The Netherlands of‘Big Class’, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary selection ofidentified as a crossing between ‘Maki Watanabe’ x ‘Hilo Lip’, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The newplant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination grown in a controlled greenhouse environment in Heemskerk, The Netherlands in July, 2020.

Asexual reproduction of the newplant by in vitro meristem propagation in a controlled environment in Assendelft, The Netherlands since June, 2021 has shown that the unique features of this newplant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.

Plants of the newhave not been observed under all possible combinations of environmental conditions and cultural practices. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environmental conditions such as temperature 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 ‘Talk Show’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Talk Show’ as a new and distinctplant:

Plants of the newcan be compared to plants of the female parent, ‘Big Class’. Plants of the newdiffer primarily from plants of ‘Big Class’ in petal arrangement as flower petals of plants of the neware imbricate whereas the flower petals of plants of ‘Big Class’ are not imbricate. In addition, flowers of plants of the neware more densely covered in stripes and netting than flowers of plants of ‘Big Class’.

Plants of the newcan be compared to plants of the male parent selection. Plants of the newdiffer primarily from plants of the male parent selection in labella form as flowers of plants of the neware “big lip” types whereas flowers of plants of the male parent selection are not “big lip” types. In addition, flowers of plants of the neware more densely covered in stripes and netting than flowers of plants of the male parent selection.

Plants of the newcan be compared to plants of‘Sweet Talk’, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons, plants of the newdiffer primarily from plants of ‘Sweet Talk’ in the following characteristics:

The aforementioned photographs and following observations and measurements describe plants grown during the summer in 11-cm containers in a glass-covered greenhouse in Heemskerk, The Netherlands and under cultural practices typically used in commercialproduction. Plants were 18 months old when the photographs and description were taken. During the first twelve months of production of the plants, day and night temperatures averaged 27° C. During the final months of production of the plants, day temperatures ranged from 20° C. to 22° C. and night temperatures ranged from 18° C. to 20° C. During the production of the plants, light levels ranged from a minimum of 5 klux to a maximum of 10 klux. In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, 2015 Edition, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.