Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
2000-08-16
2001-11-06
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012196
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant, botanically known as
Hibiscus syriacus
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Floru.
The new Hibiscus is a product of a breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Beaufort-en-Valle, France. The objective of the breeding program was to create new Hibiscus cultivars with good vigor and unique flower colors.
The new Hibiscus originated from a cross by the Inventor of the
Hibiscus syriacus
cultivar Red Heart, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent with the
Hibiscus syriacus
cultivar Oiseau Bleu, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent. The cultivar Floru was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Beaufort-en-Valle, France, on the basis of its good vigor and unique flower color.
Asexual reproducton of the new cultivar by cuttings taken at Beaufort-en-Valle, France, has shown the the unique features of this new Hibiscus are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Floru have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variegations in environment such as temperature, light intensity, daylength, irrigation amount and frequency, and fertilizer type and rate without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Floru’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Floru’ as a new and distinct cultivar.
1. Upright plant habit.
2. When pinched, very freely branching; dense and bushy plant habit.
3. Strong vigorous growth habit.
4. Large and numerous purple-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Hibiscus differ from plants of the male parent, the cultivar Red Heart, primarily in flower color as plants of the cultivar Red Heart have white-colored flowers with a red eye. In addition, plants of the new Hibiscus are more vigorous and stronger than plants of the cultivar Red Heart.
Plants of the new Hibiscus differ from plants of the female parent, the cultivar Oiseau Bleu, in flower color as plants of the cultivar Oiseau Bleu have blue-colored flowers. In addition, plants of the new Hibiscus are more vigorous, faster growing, more freely branching, and more freely flowering than plants of the cultivar Oiseau Bleu.
Plants of the new Hibiscus can be compared to plants of the
Hibiscus syriacus
cultivar Minerva, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Grand Haven, Mich., plants of the new Hibiscus differ from plants of the cultivar Minerva in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Hibiscus are faster growing and more freely branching than plants of the cultivar Minerva.
2. Plants of the new Hibiscus have stronger, thicker and less brittle stems than plants of the cultivar Minerva.
3. Plants of the new Hibiscus are more freely flowering than plants of the cultivar Minerva.
4. Flower color of plants of the new Hibiscus is deeper and more saturated than flower color of plants of the cultivar Minerva.
Campell Bruce R.
Para A
Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.
Whealy C. A.
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