Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2003-09-23
2004-07-06
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP014989
ABSTRACT:
Genus: Agapanthus
Species:
africanus
Denomination: Blue Heaven
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of lily-of-the-Nile grown for use as an ornamental for container, landscape and cut flowers. The new cultivar is known botanically as
Agapanthus africanus
and will hereinafter be referred to as ‘Blue Heaven’.
‘Blue Heaven’ is a chance seedling that was discovered by the inventor in Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands in 1998. ‘Blue Heaven’ was discovered as an individual chance seedling in an established block of unknown cultivars of
Agapanthus africanus
being grown for the purpose of cut flower production. ‘Blue Heaven’ was selected, by the inventor, for the unique traits of abundant quantity of flowers and perpetual blooming.
The new variety ‘Blue Heaven’ is a chance hybrid that resulted from the open pollination of unknown cultivars of Agapanthus grown from bulbs in a cultivated area of The Netherlands. The female parent, is presumed to be an unknown cultivar of
Agapanthus africanus
and the male parent is presumed to be an unknown cultivar of
Agapanthus africanus.
The unique traits that distinguish ‘Blue Heaven’ from the parent plants are quantity of flowers and perpetual flowering through the entire season.
‘Blue Heaven’ is an herbaceous perennial, exhibiting an upright clumping growth habit, dark violet-blue flowers and green foliage. The unique traits of profuse quantity of flowers and perpetual blooming distinguish ‘Blue Heaven’ from all other existing Agapanthus known to the inventor. There are no comparison plants known to the inventor.
‘Blue Heaven’ was first asexually propagated in 1999 in a cultivated area of Roeloforendsveen, The Netherlands by the inventor. The method used for asexual propagation was division. Since that time under careful observation, successive generations have been determined stable and true to type. Asexual propagation can also be accomplished using the method of tissue culture.
The Inventor filed on May 28, 1999 application No. 1999/0782 for a grant of European Community Plant Breeder's Rights. Application was granted on Jun. 3, 2002 (Grant No. 9477). The Inventor has been engaged in the build-up of stock, by division, solely at Inventor's own nursery. No plants of ‘Blue Heaven’ have been sold or otherwise distributed from the Inventor's nursery prior to May 13, 2003.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and represent the distinguishing characteristics of the new Agapanthus variety known as ‘Blue Heaven’. These traits in combination distinguish ‘Blue Heaven’ from all other existing varieties of Agapanthus known to the inventor. ‘Blue Heaven’ has not been tested under all possible conditions and phenotypic differences may be observed with variations in environmental, climatic, and cultural conditions, however, without any variance in genotype.
1. Agapanthus ‘Blue Heaven’ Evergreen.
2. Agapanthus ‘Blue Heaven’ flowers perpetually through the entire season.
3. Agapanthus ‘Blue Heaven’ exhibits 70-80 dark violet-blue flowers per inflorescence.
4. Agapanthus ‘Blue Heaven’ exhibits an upright and clumping habit. Agapantus ‘Blue Heaven’ is an ornamental herbaceous perennial.
5. Agapanthus ‘Blue Heaven’ exhibits green foliage.
6. Agapanthus ‘Blue Heaven’ is suitable for cut flowers, and as a container or landscape plant.
7. Agapanthus ‘Blue Heaven’ is 90 cm. in height and 75 cm. in width at maturity.
8. Agapanthus ‘Blue Heaven’ is hardy to USDA Zone 8b.
REFERENCES:
UPOV-ROM GTITM Computer Database 2003/01, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software, Citation for ‘Blue Heaven’.
Grunberg Anne Marie
Para Annette H
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