Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Anthurium
Plant Patent
2003-11-25
2004-09-28
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Anthurium
Plant Patent
active
PP015176
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Anthurium andreanum
cultivar Exciting Love.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Anthurium
plant, botanically known as
Anthurium andreanum,
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Exciting Love’.
The new
Anthurium
is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of the
Anthurium andreanum
cultivar Red Love, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,005. The cultivar Exciting Love was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant from within a large population of plants of the cultivar Red Love in a controlled environment in Schipluiden, The Netherlands in September, 1999.
Asexual propagation of the new cultivar by meristem culture in a laboratory in Belgium since September, 1999, has shown that the unique features of this new
Anthurium
plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual propagation.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new
Anthurium
has 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 the cultivar Exciting Love. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Exciting Love’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely clumping growth habit.
3. Durable dark green leaves.
4. Grayed purple-colored spathes with green-colored margins and pale yellow-colored spadices that are positioned slightly above and beyond the foliage on strong and erect scapes.
5. Freely flowering habit.
6. Good inflorescence longevity.
Plants of the new
Anthurium
are most similar to plants of the parent, the cultivar Red Love. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Schipluiden, The Netherlands, plants of the new
Anthurium
differed from plants of the cultivar Red Love in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Anthurium
had larger spathes than plants of the cultivar Red Love.
2. Plants of the new
Anthurium
and the cultivar Red Love differed in spathe coloration as spathes of plants of the cultivar Red Love were solid red in color.
Grunberg Anne Marie
Rijnplant B.V.
Whealy C. A.
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