plant named ‘BT RASseven’

Latin name of the genus and species:

Cultivar denomination: ‘BT RASseven’.

The newcultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the inventor in Baselgia di Pine, Italy. The objective of the breeding program was to produce newvarieties for commercial applications. The cross resulting in this new cultivar was made during September of 2019.

The seed parent is a proprietary, unpatented cultivar referred to as‘BT17AC190’. The pollen parent is the unpatented proprietary cultivar‘BPDRE’. The new cultivar was selected during the August of 2021 by the inventor in a group of seedlings resulting from the 2019 crossing, in a research greenhouse in Baselgia di Pine, Italy.

The inventor has filed an application with the CPVO Dec. 13, 2023, having application number 2023/2724. This disclosure falls within the exception allowed under 102(b)(1).

Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar was performed by vegetative suckers. This was first performed at a research greenhouse in Baselgia di Pine, Italy during February of 2022 and has shown that the unique features of this cultivar are stable and reproduced true to type in multiple successive generations.

The cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ 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 ‘BT RASseven’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘BT RASseven’ as a new and distinctcultivar:

Plants of the new cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ are similar to plants of the seed parent, in most horticultural characteristics, however, plants of the new cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ differ in the following:

Plants of the new cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ are similar to plants of the pollen parent, in most horticultural characteristics, however, plants of the new cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ differ in the following:

Plants of the new cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ are comparable to the cultivar‘BT RASTWO’, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 33,447. The twovarieties are similar in most horticultural characteristics, however, the new cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ differs in the following:

Plants of the new cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ can also be compared to the commercial cultivar‘BP1’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,459. These varieties are similar in most horticultural characteristics however, the new cultivar ‘BT RASseven’ differs in the following:

In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart 2007 except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used. The following observations and measurements describe ‘BT RASseven’ plants which were grown in Borgo Valsugana, Trento, Italy. Plants were grown in a season tunnel, given approximately 30% shading during Summer. The growing temperature ranged from about 15° C. to 34° C. during the day and from about 8° C. to 22° C. during the night. Measurements and numerical values represent averages of typical plant types. Plants are approximately 1 year old.