Abstract: The new cultivar is characterized by its unique coral red color and its densely packed umbel giving the overall effect of semi-doubleness. It is further characterized by its free basal branching, compact growth, and free continuous and early flowering.

Abstract: A new cultivar is characterized by its improved branching habit which provides more cuttings as well as by a fuller finished plant. It has very good keeping quality and high temperatures, wind and rain. It is also characterized by its delicate light pink color edged in white against a medium green foliage.

Abstract: A new cultivar is characterized by its lasting quality, free and early flowering, basal branching and vigorous upright habit. The bloom color is different from those currently available being a more delicate salmon color. The compact bush habit provides an abundance of cuttings. The bloom contrasts nicely with the medium green foliage.

Abstract: A new cultivar is characterized by its bright scarlet color which shows little sign of burn under high light and temperature conditions. The medium green foliage forms a compact mound shape with the bloom placed just above the canopy. The variety also branches very freely producing an abundance of cuttings.

Abstract: A new cultivar is characterized by a rich pink color set against a medium green foliage. The growth habit is more compact and controlled when compared to the commercial variety "Cherry Blossom".

Abstract: A new and distinct Euphorbia pulcherrima cultivar named BFP-437G is provided which exhibits attractive long-lasting Current Red bracts and dark green foliage. This new cultivar is the product of a phenotypical transformation following grafting (as described). A number of characteristics of the Dynasty (H518) cultivar U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,150) are transformed upon grafting to an understock of the LADY cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,763) to yield a stable and distinctive new cultivar which exhibits a combination of characteristics which are incapable of prediction in advance. More specifically, the new cultivar when compared to its Dynasty (H518) parent exhibits, inter alia, more and quicker root formation, a shorter flowering response period, larger bracts particularly on developing plants, more response to growth regulators, a fuller growth habit with more extensive basal branching, and superior leaf and bract retention following harvest.

Abstract: A new and distinct tetraploid Pelargonium.times.hortorum cultivar named BSR-233 Bright Coral is provided. This new Zonal Geranium cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein an unnamed plant designated 7-GRT-1A was pollinated by the Tango cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,933). The new cultivar forms attractive semi-double coral florets and forms dark green non-zoned leaves. Exceptionally good garden performance is exhibited including tolerance to wind and rain. The growth habit is inherently compact with basal self-branching and does not require the use of growth regulators to maintain such growth characteristic.