Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Hosta
Plant Patent
2002-12-06
2004-03-23
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Hosta
Plant Patent
active
PP014632
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Hosta tardiflora
cultivar El Niño.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Hosta plant, botanically known as
Hosta tardiflora
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name El Niño.
The new Hosta originated from a cross-pollination in 1996 of the
Hosta tardiflora
cultivar Halcyon, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with an unidentified selection of
Hosta tardiflora
, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar El Niño was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar since March, 1999, by divisions harvested in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, has shown that the unique features of this new Hosta are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar El Niño have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature and light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘El Niño’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘El Niño’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Relatively compact plant habit.
2. Bluish green and white variegated leaves.
3. Freely flowering habit.
4. Violet blue-colored flowers that are positioned above the foliage on erect scapes.
Plants of the new Hosta can be compared to plants of the female parent, the cultivar Halcyon. Plants of the new Hosta differ primarily from plants of the cultivar Halcyon in leaf coloration as plants of the cultivar Halcyon have solid bluish green-colored leaves.
Bell Kent
Krawczewicz Myers Louanne
Whealy C. A.
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