Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1998-10-09
2001-05-01
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1649)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011851
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar botanically known as
Impatiens hawkeri
, commercially as New Guinea Impatiens, and by the cultivar name ElRed.
The cultivar of
FIGS. 1-2
was developed and selected in a controlled breeding program in a controlled environment in Coquille, Ore. by the inventor, Harlan Cosner. ‘ElRed’ was selected as a single lateral branch of an unnamed parent, coded L-146. Further details of a method of breeding flowers with the new and distinct characteristics of ‘ElRed’ are disclosed in a co-pending utility patent application, filed concurrently on the same date as this application, naming Harland Cosner as the inventor, entitled Novel Impatiens Plants And Methods Of Reproduction, Ser. No. 09/169,593 (hereinafter the “Cosner Utility Application”). The disclosure of that application is hereby incorporated by reference for the plants and flowers disclosed and the methods of producing the same.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar, based on terminal cuttings taken at Coquille, Ore. and grown out in a controlled environment there, shows that the unique features of ‘ElRed’ are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
FIGS. 1-2
show New Guinea Impatiens plants according to the present invention. Relative to single or multi-color flowers of conventional New Guinea impatiens plants, such as the Star or Bright Eye varieties, which have distinct non-random patterns, the colors on flowers of the present invention are distributed in distinct irregular, randomly distributed patterns on some or all petals of some or all flowers. The patterns are defined by multiple, irregularly-shaped regions of color. Generally, each region consists of an elongate streak or patch of color typically radiating in a direction from the base of a petal to the edge of the petal. The irregularly shaped regions, while not necessarily exclusive of other colors, generally are dominated by a single color. The streaks or patches forming regions may vary in shape, length, width, and color intensity. They also may vary in terms of their position relative to the base and edge of a petal. As used herein, the term “marbled” and variations of this word shall refer to a petal or flower having patterns as described in this paragraph.
The present cultivar differs from its parent in that predominantly every flower displays a random multi-colored pattern on nearly every petal of nearly every flower. The parent plant produced flowers with petals that were extremely variable from solid different colors to the current random multi-colored patterns of the present invention.
Color references are according to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.
The photographs of the plant and flowers in
FIGS. 1-2
, which correspond to
FIGS. 2-3
in the Cosner Utility Application, were taken at Coquille, Ore. in late summer/early fall. They illustrate the new and distinctive marbled effect in the flowers of ‘ElRed’. The photographs show the marbled effect in the flowers, colors in the flowers, foliage of the plant, and habit of the plant as true as reasonably possible. Flower and foliage colors in the photographs may appear different from the actual colors due to variables such as light reflectance and photo-processing conditions. To the extent there may be differences between the photographs and the Colour Chart descriptions in the text, the textual descriptions control.
REFERENCES:
Hartmann et al. Plant Propagation: Principles and Practices, 6th Edition. Simon and Schuster, New Jersey. pp. 244-249, 1997.
Campell Bruce R.
Cosner Harlan
Ganz, Esq. Bradley M.
Kimball Melissa L.
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