Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-04-02
2001-10-02
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012107
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of Neoregelia hybrid, botanically known as Neoregelia and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Zoë’. Neoregelia species are tank epiphytes with stemless inflorescences and flowers that barely rise above the water in the center of the plants. ‘Zoë’ can be advantageously grown as a single-pot or hanging-basket plant in order to display its symmetrically rosette plant form.
‘Zoë’ is characterized by its small plant size and grayed-purple of its leaf margins (RHS 187 A). The leaf margin at the sheath is RHS 137 C. The center variegation of the leaf is RHS 187 D. ‘Zoë’ is a stoloniferous plant that produces leaves with an overall wine color appearance.
‘Zoë’ is a product of a planned breeding program and was originated from a cross made in Balsa, Costa Rica, in 1989. The female parent (unpatented) was an unnamed plant of (
Neoregelia carolinae lineata
×Neoregelia ‘Fireball’)×Neoregelia ‘Fireball’. The male parent (unpatented) was Neoregelia ‘Fireball’, an unnamed species from Brazil that is known as
Neoregelia schultesiana
in Europe. ‘Zoë’ was discovered and selected as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross by the inventor, Chester Skotak, Jr., in 1991, in a controlled environment in a nursery in Balsa, Costa Rica. ‘Zoë’ was first asexually reproduced in Balsa, Costa Rica in 1991, by division. Subsequent asexual reproduction by vegetative propagation has demonstrated that the combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for the new cultivar are firmly fixed and reproduces true to type through successive generations of asexual reproduction.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be basic characteristics of ‘Zoë’ which in combination distinguish this Neoregelia as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Small size measuring approximately 15 cm in height when grown in a 12.5-cm pot and approximately 22 cm in diameter when fully grown;
2. A brilliant wine color with the leaf margins in the greyed-purple group (RHS 187 A);
3. Leaves of the rosette which retain their color through the life cycle of the plant with the center color having a layer of gray-purple 185 B when in flower; and
4. Large numbers of stoloniferous offsets with stolons approximately 15 cm long.
‘Zoë’ 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 variation in the genotype of the plant.
The new variety Neoregelia ‘Zoë’ can be compared to Neoregelia ‘Fireball’, an unnamed species from Brazil known as
Neoregelia schultesiana
in Europe. ‘Zoë’ has a well-developed rossette of leaves and is larger than Neoregelia ‘Fireball’. ‘Zoeë’ is also variegated and has finely serrated margins whereas Neoregelia ‘Fireball’ is not variegated and is almost spineless. The female parent cultivar is a larger plant in overall appearance, and the wine coloration in the leaves is not as strong.
Bell Kent L.
Campell Bruce R.
Deroose Plants BVBA
Foley & Lardner
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