Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2000-06-14
2002-10-08
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP013051
ABSTRACT:
The present invention comprises a new and distinctive New Guinea Impatiens plant, hereinafter referred to by the cultivar named ‘Balcebpurs’.
The new cultivar is the product of a controlled irradiation program. More specifically, cuttings from ‘Grape Crush’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,107) were irradiated with 2 kilorads of gamma rays and allowed to grow. One of the cuttings was discovered to exhibit a flower with petals having a distinct striping pattern and was allowed to continue growing. The resulting plant exhibited a number of flowers having petals which displayed the same striping pattern. This cutting/plant was designated BFP-1865. Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal or stem cuttings taken during 1998 and 1999 at Arroyo Grande, Calif., U.S.A. has demonstrated that the characteristics of the new cultivar as herein described are firmly fixed and are retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It was found that the cultivar of the present invention:
(a) Exhibits attractive large round flowers with distinctive striping pattern,
(b) Forms medium green foliage,
(c) Exhibits a good basal branching character.
The ‘Balcebpurs’ cultivar has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions to date. Accordingly, it is possible that the phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in the environment, such as temperature, light intensity, and day length.
When the new cultivar of the present invention is compared to Grape Crush, it is found to be substantially identical in growth habit, form and size. However, the flower color is distinctly different. The flower color of the new invention exhibits a background color of Red-Purple Group 74A with stripes of Red-Purple Group 65C (adaxial) and Red-Purple Group 74B (abaxial) whereas ‘Grape Crush’ flowers are Red-Purple Group 74A with the lower four petals commonly displaying bases of 53C (abaxial) and Red-Purple Group 74B (abaxial).
REFERENCES:
patent: PP11851 (2001-05-01), Cosner et al.
UPROV-ROM GTITM Computer Database, Mar. 2001, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software, citation for ‘Balcebpurs’.
Olbring Andreas
Trees Scott
Ball Horticultural Company
Campell Bruce R.
McCormick Susan B.
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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