Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2002-12-26
2004-01-27
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP014499
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of genus and species of plant claimed:
Diascia barberae.
Variety denomination: ‘Balwhisalim’.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct Diascia plant, botanically known as
Diascia barberae,
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Balwhisalim’.
The new cultivar was developed by the inventor in a controlled breeding program during November 1999, at Arroyo Grande, Calif. The objective of the breeding program was the development of Diascia cultivars with a well-branched, spreading growth habit, continuous flowering and medium green foliage.
The new cultivar was the result of open pollination with the female parent being the commercially available Diascia variety ‘Red Start’. ‘Balwhisalim’ was discovered and selected in February 2000 as a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the above stated cross and was designated NCT-48B.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar at West Chicago, Ill. was carried out by the use of terminal stem cuttings and has demonstrated that the characteristics of the new cultivar as herein described are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
It was found that the cultivar of the present invention:
(a) exhibits light pink colored flowers,
(b) forms foliage of a medium green color, and
(c) exhibits a spreading, trailing growth habit.
The new cultivar can be compared to its female parent, the commercially available Diascia plant ‘Red Start’ (non-patented). In side-by-side comparison, plants of the new cultivar are more vigorous with a taller and more spreading growth habit than plants of ‘Red Start’.
Ball Floraplant, a division of Ball Horticultural Company
Grunberg Anne Marie
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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