question on cultivars

[tucker85]

When two specific parent plants are crossed to produce a new hybrid, that hybrid is given a name. Those same two parents can be bred many times by different breeders and it still retains the same name. When one specific plant, of the resulting seed grown hybrids, is chosen because of superior color or flower shape or any other desirable trait, it can be given a 'cultivar' name. Usually the cultivar name is given to the plant when it wins an award. From then on, only clones of that specific plant can use that cultivar name, also referred to as a 'clonal' name. Small pieces of that specific plant can be cloned into thousands of new plants that are exact copies of the parent plant.