Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2003-06-03
2004-05-25
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP014811
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Impatiens hawkeri
cultivar Fisnics Hot Pink.
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 ‘Fisnics Hot Pink’.
The new Impatiens is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Hillscheid, Germany and Galder, Gran Canaria, Spain. The objective of the breeding program is to develop new medium-sized Impatiens cultivars with an early to medium flowering response and large rounded flowers with attractive coloration.
The new Impatiens originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor during the spring of 1999 of a proprietary seedling selection of
Impatiens hawkeri
identified as code number K98-4098-2, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary seedling selection of
Impatiens hawkeri
identified as code number K98-4012-19, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar Fisnics Hot Pink was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Galder, Gran Canaria, Spain in April, 2000.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in Galder, Gran Canaria, Spain, since July, 2000, 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 ‘Fisnics Hot Pink’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Fisnics Hot Pink’ as a new and distinct Impatiens cultivar:
1. Outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit; medium growth habit.
2. Freely branching and freely flowering habit.
3. Dark green-colored foliage.
4. Large, round, red purple-colored flowers that are positioned just above and beyond the foliage.
Plants of the new Impatiens can be compared to plants of the female parent selection. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Hillscheid, Germany, plants of the new Impatiens differed from plants of the female parent selection in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Impatiens flowered earlier than plants of the female parent selection.
2. Flowers of plants of the new Impatiens were darker in color than flowers of plants of the female parent selection.
Plants of the new Impatiens can be compared to plants of the male parent selection. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Hillscheid, Germany, plants of the new Impatiens differed from plants of the male parent selection in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Impatiens were larger than plants of the male parent selection.
2. Plants of the new Impatiens and the male parent selection differed in flower coloration.
Plants of the new Impatiens can also be compared to plants of the cultivar Balcebimho, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,926. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Hillscheid, Germany, plants of the new Impatiens differed from plants of the cultivar Balcebimho in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Impatiens were slightly taller than plants of the cultivar Balcebimho.
2. Plants of the new Impatiens had darker green-colored leaves than plants of the cultivar Balcebimho.
3. Plants of the new Impatiens had larger flowers than plants of the cultivar Balcebimho.
4. Flowers of plants of the new Impatiens and the cultivar Balcebimho differed slightly in flower coloration.
Bell Kent
Whealy C. A.
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