Plants – Shrub or vine – Mandevilla
Plant Patent
2002-06-05
2003-11-11
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Mandevilla
Plant Patent
active
PP014290
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Mandevilla×amabilis
cultivar Monrey.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Mandevilla plant, botanically known as
Mandevilla×amabilis,
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Monrey’.
The new Mandevilla is a naturally-occurring branch mutation of the
Mandevilla×amabilis
cultivar Monite, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,123. The new Mandevilla was discovered and selected by the Inventor on Jun. 29, 2001 in a controlled environment in Azusa, Calif., within a population of plants of the cultivar Monite.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by tissue culture in a laboratory in Azusa, Calif., since August, 2001, has shown that the unique features of this new Mandevilla are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Monrey 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 ‘Monrey’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Monrey’ as a new and distinct cultivar of Mandevilla:
1. Vining growth habit.
2. Glossy, dark green leaves.
3. Large double pink-colored flowers with 20 petals per flower.
Plants of the new Mandevilla differ from plants of the parent, the cultivar Monite, primarily in flower form as plants of the cultivar Monite have single flowers with five petals.
Plants of the new Mandevilla can be compared to plants of the double flower Mandevilla cultivar Rita Marie Green, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,787. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Azusa, Calif., plants of the new cultivar differed from plants of the cultivar Rita Marie Green in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Mandevilla had about 20 petals per flower whereas plants of the cultivar Rita Marie Green had about 10 petals per flower.
2. Flower petals of plants of the new Mandevilla were not fused whereas flower petals of plants of the cultivar Rita Marie Green were fused.
Bell Kent
Krawczewicz Myers Louanne
Monrovia Nursery Company
Whealy C. A.
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