Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-12-31
2001-05-08
Campell, Bruce (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011859
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Double Impatiens plant, botanically known as
Impatiens walleriana
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Balfiecobl.
The new Impatiens is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Elburn, Ill. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new Double Impatiens cultivars with freely-branching vigorous growth habit, numerous large fully double flowers, and attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Impatiens originated from a cross made by the Inventor of the proprietary selection of
Impatiens walleriana
identified as code number 3020-3-1-1 as the male, or pollen parent, with the proprietary selection of
Impatiens walleriana
identified as code number 526-1-1 as the female, or seed parent. The cultivar Balfiecobl was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Elburn in 1997.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Elburn has shown that the unique features of this new Impatiens are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Balfiecobl’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balfiecobl’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Numerous orange-colored fully double flowers.
2. Upright and mounded plant habit.
3. Freely basal-branching habit.
The new Impatiens can be compared to the cultivar, Salmon Sunrise, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,691. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Elburn, plants of the new Impatiens differ from plants of the cultivar Salmon Sunrise in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Impatiens have larger flowers than plants of the cultivar Salmon Sunrise.
2. Flowers of plants of the new Impatiens have more petaloids and are more fully double than flowers of plants of the cultivar Salmon Sunrise.
3. Flower color of plants of the new Impatiens is more orange than the flower color of plants of the cultivar Salmon Sunrise.
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