Plants – Shrub or vine – Mandevilla
Plant Patent
2003-11-18
2004-08-03
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Mandevilla
Plant Patent
active
PP015064
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Mandevilla hybrid
cultivar Pink Velvet.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Mandevilla plant, botanically known as
Mandevilla hybrid,
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Pink Velvet’.
The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Hawthorne, Fla. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new Mandevilla cultivars with attractive flower form and coloration.
The new cultivar originated from a self-pollination of the
Mandevilla hybrid
cultivar Alice DuPont, not patented, in Hawthorne, Fla., in 1996. The new cultivar was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny from this self-pollination in a controlled environment in Hawthorne, Fla., in 2000. The new cultivar was selected on the basis of its flower form and flower coloration.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in Hawthorne, Fla., since spring, 2000, has shown that the unique features of this new Mandevilla are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Pink Velvet have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment 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 ‘Pink Velvet’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Pink Velvet’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright vining growth habit.
2. Glossy, dark green-colored leaves.
3. Dark pink-colored flowers with imbricate petals with ruffled margins.
4. Tolerant to low and high temperatures.
Plants of the new Mandevilla are most similar to plants of the parent cultivar, ‘Alice DuPont’. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Hawthorne, Fla., plants of the new Mandevilla differed from plants of the cultivar Alice DuPont in the following characteristics:
1. Leaves of plants of the new Mandevilla were smaller, smoother and glossier than leaves of plants of the cultivar Alice DuPont.
2. Plants of the new Mandevilla had smaller flowers than plants of the cultivar Alice DuPont.
3. Flower petals of plants of the new Mandevilla were more overlapping than flower petals of plants of the cultivar Alice DuPont.
Grunberg Anne Marie
Lake Area Nursery
Para Annette H
Whealy C. A.
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