Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2002-07-15
2004-05-25
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP014819
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of the genus and species of the plant claimed: Genus: Impatiens. Species:
sultanii.
Variety denomination: ‘Snow 'n Ice’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant, botanically known as
Impatiens sultanii,
hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Snow 'n Ice’.
The new cultivar originated from a sport discovered in a cultivated garden in Buckinghamshire, UK. The parent is a white double flowering
Impatiens sultanii.
‘Snow 'n Ice’ was discovered and selected by the inventor, Alastair Macaulay, as a flowering plant within the progeny in the controlled environment of his garden.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by tip cuttings was first performed late 2000 in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom and has demonstrated that the combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for the new cultivar are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of asexual reproduction. The new cultivar reproduces true-to-type.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be basic characteristics of ‘Snow 'n Ice’ which in combination distinguish this Impatiens as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Impatiens ‘Snow 'n Ice’ has the distinct color pattern on its leaves which is characteristic of the varieties that make up the Summer Ice® Series of Double flowering Impatiens; and
2. unique white double flower characteristic in combination with the distinct color pattern on its leaves.
‘Snow 'n Ice’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype of the new cultivar may vary significantly with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity, and daylength without any change in the genotype of the plant. The following observations, measurements and values describe the new cultivar as grown in Loudon, N.H. under conditions which closely approximate those generally used in commercial practice.
Of the many commercial cultivars known to the present inventor, the most similar in comparison to ‘Snow 'n Ice’ is cultivar ‘Pink Ice’. The plant growth habit, foliage appearance and leaf variegation is similar. The flower color is distinctly different. Mature ‘Pink Ice’ flowers are pink, RHS 75B with darker 74 B throat and main color fading to RHS 75C; immature flowers are between RHS 74 D and RHS 75B. ‘Snow 'n Ice’ flowers are white, RHS 155 C.
In comparison to its parent, ‘Snow 'n Ice’ differs in that it has distinctly variegated foliage. The leaves of the parent plant have the shades of green common to
Impatiens sultanii.
The upper surface of the mature leaves of ‘Snow 'n Ice’ are green with a silver sheen, RHS 188A, with a green center RHS 189A, and a white fringe, RHS 155B. ‘Snow 'n Ice’ also differs in growth habit from its parent plant, taking approximately 1 to 2 weeks longer to bloom, and having a slower growth, rate 2 to 3 weeks behind the parent plant due to the reduced amount of chlorophyll.
Campell Bruce R.
D. S. Cole Growers Inc.
Hwu June
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