Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-12-31
2001-06-26
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011962
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Maranta plant, botanically known as
Maranta leuconeura
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Beauty Kim.
The new Maranta was discovered by the Inventor in a controlled environment in San Jose Penula, Guatemala, in Spring, 1997, as a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of the
Maranta leuconeura
var. Kerchoviana, not patented. The new Maranta was observed as a single plant in a group of plants of the var. Kerchoviana.
Asexual propagation of the new Maranta by vegetative cuttings and by tissue-culture in Apopka, Fla. has shown that the unique features of this new Maranta are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
The new Maranta has 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.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be in unique characteristics of plants of the new Maranta. These characteristics in combination distinguish the new Maranta as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Outwardly spreading to weeping plant habit.
2. Unique leaf coloration.
Plants of the new Maranta differ from the var. Kerchoviana and other known selections and cultivars of Maranta in leaf coloration and pattern. The upper surface foliage colors of the new Maranta, the parent var. Kerchoviana and the var. Massangeana compare as follows:
Back-
Venal
ground
Spots
Veins
splotches
‘Beauty Kim’
139C
175D and
150D and 139C
150D
183A
var. Kerchoviana
137A
139A
137A
none
var. Massangeana
137B
144C
53B
none
Campell Bruce R.
Hwu June
Oro Farms
Whealy C. A.
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