Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2002-03-27
2004-01-06
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP014449
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of genus and species of plant claimed:
Impatiens walleriana.
Variety denomination: ‘Balpixred’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct Impatiens plant, botanically known as
Impatiens walleriana
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Balpixred.
‘Balpixred’ is a product of a planned breeding program with the objective of developing Impatiens cultivars with small flowers and compact growth habits.
The female or seed parent of ‘Balpixred’, ‘Red Chico’ (not patented), has a more compact growth habit than ‘Balpixred’. The male or pollen parent of ‘Balpixred’, the proprietary Impatiens selection designated SD01033-2 (not patented), has pink and white bicolor flowers. The new cultivar was discovered and selected as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the above stated cross during January 2000 in a controlled environment at Elburn, Ill. The new cultivar was designated BFP-562.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar has been carried out at Elburn, Ill. and West Chicago, Ill. by terminal tip cuttings and has demonstrated that the unique characteristics of the new cultivar as herein described are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It was found that the cultivar of the present invention:
(a) exhibits small red flowers;
(b) forms dark green foliage;
(c) exhibits a good basal branching character; and
(d) exhibits a compact growth habit.
The new cultivar of the present invention can be compared to ‘Fify Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,753). However, in side-by-side comparisons, plants of the new cultivar are more vigorous. Lower surface of leaves of ‘Balpixbros’ are solid green whereas those of ‘Fify Red’ are green with blotches of 183D and the flower color of ‘Balpixred’ is slightly lighter than ‘Fify Red’. “Balpixred can also be compared to its sibling cultivar, ‘Balpixbros’. In side-by-side comparisons flowers of ‘Balpixred’ are darker and more red than those of ‘Balpixbros’.”
Ball Floraplant, a division of Ball Horticultural Company
Grunberg Anne Marie
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