Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2001-08-06
2002-11-12
Bell, Kent L. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP013224
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION
Impatiens hawkeri
cultivar ‘Fisupnics Lav’.
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 ‘Fisupnics Lav’.
The new Impatiens is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Hillscheid, Germany. The objective of the breeding program is to develop new Impatiens cultivars that flower relatively early and have large flowers with attractive flower color.
The new Impatiens originated from a cross made by the Inventor in May, 1997 of the
Impatiens hawkeri
cultivar ‘Toga’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,304, as the female, or seed parent, with the
Impatiens hawkeri
cultivar ‘Guadeloupe’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,001, as the male, or pollen parent. The cultivar ‘Fisupnics Lav’ was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Moncarapacho, Portugal in March, 1998.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in Moncarapacho, Portugal, since March, 1998, 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 ‘Fisupnics Lav’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Fisupnics Lav’ as a new and distinct Impatiens cultivar:
1. Outwardly spreading, rounded and uniformly mounded plant habit.
2. Freely branching and freely flowering habit.
3. Large rounded lavender purple-colored flowers with purple-colored central stripes that are positioned above and beyond the foliage.
4. Dark green-colored leaves.
Plants of the new Impatiens is most similar to and can be compared to plants of the female parent, the cultivar ‘Toga’. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Hillscheid, Germany, plants of the new Impatiens differed from plants of the cultivar ‘Toga’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Impatiens are broader than plants of the cultivar ‘Toga’.
2. Plants of the new Impatiens have darker green leaves than plants of the cultivar ‘Toga’.
3. Stems of plants of the new Impatiens are green in color whereas stems of plants of the cultivar ‘Toga’ are green to light red in color.
4. Flower color of plants of the new Impatiens is more intense and slightly darker lavender purple than flower color of plants of the cultivar ‘Toga’.
Plants of the new Impatiens can be compared to plants of the male parent, the cultivar ‘Guadeloupe’. In side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Hillscheid, Germany, plants of the new Impatiens differed from plants of the cultivar ‘Guadeloupe’ in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Impatiens are larger than plants of the cultivar ‘Guadeloupe’.
2. Plants of the new Impatiens have larger flowers than plants of the cultivar ‘Guadeloupe’.
3. Flower color of plants of the new Impatiens is lavender purple with purple central stripes whereas flower color of plants of the cultivar ‘Guadeloupe’ is lavender purple with red purple central stripes.
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