Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2003-02-06
2004-02-10
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP014528
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar denomination:
Impatiens hawkeri
cultivar Balcebgrapi.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant, botanically known as
Impatiens hawkeri,
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Balcebgrapi’.
The new Impatiens is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Arroyo Grande, Calif. The objective of the breeding program is to develop New Guinea Impatiens cultivars that are compact, have a freely basal branching growth habit and numerous large flowers with attractive flower colors.
The new Impatiens originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in 1999 of the
Impatiens hawkeri
cultivar Acapella, not patented, as the female, or seed parent, with a proprietary selection of
Impatiens hawkeri
identified as code number 2026, not patented, as the male, or pollen parent. The cultivar Balcebgrapi was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Arroyo Grande, Calif.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in Arroyo Grande, Calif. since November, 1999 has shown that the unique features of this new Impatiens are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Balcebgrapi’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balcebgrapi’ as a new and distinct New Guinea Impatiens cultivar:
1. Upright, uniform and mounded plant habit.
2. Large red purple-colored flowers that are positioned above and beyond the leaves.
3. Green-colored leaves.
Plants of the new Impatiens differ primarily from plants of the female and male parents in flower and leaf coloration.
Plants of the new Impatiens can be compared to plants of the cultivar Grape Crush, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,107. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in West Chicago, Ill., plants of the new Impatiens differed from plants of the cultivar Grape Crush in the following characteristics:
1. Leaves of plants of the new Impatiens were lighter green in color than leaves of plants of the cultivar Grape Crush.
2. Plants of the new Impatiens had larger flowers than plants of the cultivar Grape Crush.
3. Plants of the new Impatiens were not as freely flowering as plants of the cultivar Grape Crush.
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Campell Bruce R.
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Whealy C. A.
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