Plants – Rose – Floribunda or polyantha
Plant Patent
2003-07-02
2004-09-21
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Floribunda or polyantha
Plant Patent
active
PP015155
ABSTRACT:
Classification: The present invention relates to a new Rosa hybrida plant.
Variety denomination: The new plant has the varietal denomination ‘WEKpaltlez’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Floribunda Rose. It has as its seed parent an undisseminated seedling of my creation and as its pollen parent the variety known as ‘HARwelcome’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,161).
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Among the features which distinguish the new variety from other presently available and commercial rose cultivars known to the inventor are the following combination of characteristics: its unusual smoky chocolate orange coloration overlaid with a wash of lavender, its highly glossed foliage surface, its numerous stipitate glands on the new shoots and its dark new growth. The plant has a bushy upright growing habit, suitable for outdoor garden decoration.
Asexual reproduction of the new variety by budding as performed in Kern County and Upland, Calif., shows that the foregoing and other distinguishing characteristics come true to form and are established and transmitted through succeeding asexual propagations. ‘WEKpaltlez’ may be asexually propagated by cuttings, budding and grafting. The budding and grafting successfully occurred on the plant/rootstock Rosa hybrida cv. ‘Dr. Huey’.
COMPARISON WITH PARENTS
The new rose may be distinguished from its seed parent, an undisseminated seedling of my creation by the following combination of characteristics: whereas ‘WEKpaltlez’ bears medium sized flowers (about 6.7 to about 10.2 cm. in diameter) of unusual smoky chocolate orange coloration overlaid with a wash of lavender and with double petalage (about 17 to 27 petals), the undisseminated seedling bears significantly smaller flowers of orange-red coloration with lesser petalage (about 7 to 10 petals). The new variety is classified as a floribunda rose with a bushy upright mature growing habit, whereas the seed parent is a climbing rose with a significantly larger and more spreading mature growing habit.
The new variety may be distinguished from its pollen parent, ‘HARwelcome’ by the following combination of characteristics: whereas ‘WEKpaltlez’ bears flowers of unusual smoky chocolate orange coloration overlaid with a wash of lavender, the pollen parent bears flowers of blended orange coloration. ‘WEKpaltlez’ bears dark new foliage, whereas ‘HARwelcome’ bears significantly lighter new foliage. The new variety is classified as a floribunda rose with a bushy upright mature growing habit, whereas the pollen parent is classified as floribunda rose with a significantly smaller and more compact mature growing habit.
Christie Parker & Hale LLP
Grunberg Anne Marie
McCormick-Ewoldt S B
Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower Inc.
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