Plants – Broadleaf tree
Plant Patent
2000-09-14
2003-05-20
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Broadleaf tree
Plant Patent
active
PP013822
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of
Albizia julibrissin,
which was discovered in 1990 as a seedling in a controlled planting of
Albizia julibrissin
at 337 Akashiba Shinden, Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, 333 Japan by Dr. Masato Yokoi. The varietal denomination of the new variety is ‘Summer Chocolate’.
The genus Albizia is included in the family Leguminosae (alternately Fabaceae or Mimosoideae) which comprises about 150 deciduous tree and shrub genera growing in the northern and southern hemispheres. Albizia Durazz. comprises 7 species of deciduous shrubs, many of which possess desirable ornamental characteristics.
Albizia julibrissin
is found from Iran to Japan with naturalization occurring in the United States. It generally has alternate, bipinnately compound leaves, up to 50 cm long, with 10-25 pinnae, each with 40-60 leaflets. Leaflets are falcate, oblong, oblique, 0.5-1 mm long, green ciliate and occasionally pubescent on the underside leaflet midrib.
Flowers of
Albizia julibrissin
are borne light to deep pink, fragrant borne in corybose racemes in the summer. Flower colors are lime green to pink.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new variety was discovered as a seedling in a controlled planting of
Albizia julibrissin
and differs from its parent in having burgundy colored foliage and dark pink to burgundy colored flowers. Asexual reproduction of the new variety performed in Kawaguchi City , Japan; Lewisberry, Pa.; Vacaville, Calif. and Irvine, Calif. have confirmed that the distinctive characteristics of the new variety are stable and transmitted to succeeding generations.
Campell Bruce R.
Christie Parker & Hale LLP
Hines Nurseries Inc.
McCormick Susan B.
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