Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2003-12-16
2004-09-21
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP015164
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of the genus and species of plant claimed:
Impatiens walleriana.
Variety denomination: ‘Balolerose’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct Double Impatiens plant botanically known as
Impatiens walleriana
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Balolerose’.
The new cultivar was developed by the inventor in a controlled breeding program during November 2000 at Elburn, Ill. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new Impatiens cultivars with numerous fully double flowers, excellent basal branching, and upright, compact growth habit.
The female (seed) parent of ‘Balolerose’ was the proprietary
Impatiens walleriana
selection designated ‘3438-1’ (not patented) characterized by its vigorous growth habit, purple-colored flowers, and dark green-colored foliage. The male (pollen) parent of ‘Balolerose’ was the proprietary
Impatiens walleriana
selection ‘3357-3’ (not patented) characterized by its vigorous upright habit, fully double red-colored flowers, and dark green-colored foliage. ‘Balolerose’ was discovered and selected as one flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in September of 2001 and was initially designated ‘7544-4’.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings in West Chicago, Ill., has demonstrated that the characteristics of the new cultivar, as herein described, reproduce true to type and are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new cultivar has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions to date. Accordingly, it is possible that the phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in the environment, such as temperature, light intensity, and day length without, however, any change in phenotype.
It was repeatedly found that the cultivar of the present invention:
1. Exhibits fully double dark pink-colored flowers,
2. Forms dark green-colored foliage,
3. Exhibits a good basal branching character, and
4. Exhibits a compact, upright and mounded growth habit.
Plants of the new cultivar differ from plants of the parents primarily in flower color.
Of the many commercially available Double Impatiens cultivars known to the inventor, ‘Balolerose’ is most similar to ‘Sparkler Rose’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,603). However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in West Chicago, Ill., plants of the new cultivar differed from plants of ‘Sparkler Rose’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of ‘Balolerose’ are more floriferous than plants of ‘Sparkler Rose’.
2. The flowers of the plants of ‘Balolerose’ have more petals than the flowers of the plants of ‘Sparkler Rose’, and
3. The flowers of the plants of ‘Balolerose’ are a uniform color while the flowers of the plants of ‘Sparkler Rose’ are bicolor.
Ball Horticultural Company
Grunberg Anne Marie
Para Annette H
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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