Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
2000-04-17
2001-11-27
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012236
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a new and distinctive cultivar of Impatiens plant. botanically known as
Impatiens hawkeri
, commercially known as New Guinea Impatiens, and known by the cultivar name ‘Ovation Red Peppermint’. Ovation Red Peppermint was developed in a controlled breeding program by crossing Mikkelsen Seedling No. 95-264-3 (seed parent) with Mikkelsen Seedling No. 94-604-1 (pollen parent). The seed and pollen parents are proprietary breeding lines which have not been sold or made publicly available in this country.
Asexaul reproduction carried out by the inventor in Lompoc, Calif. by terminal or stem has shown that the unique features of this new Impatiens are stabilized and are reproduced true to type in successive propagations.
The following combination of characteristics distinguishes the new Impatiens from both its parent varieties and other cultivated Impatiens of this type known and used in the floriculture industry:
1. Ovation Red Peppermint has red (Red Group 46B) and lavender (Purple-Violet Group 80C) bicolored flowers while Neptis (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,321) has lighter bicolored flowers of Red Group 42A and Red-Purple Group 62C.
2. Ovation Red Peppermint has a spur that is entirely yellow-green in color while Neptis has a spur with a reddish cast on the upper third of the spur.
3. Ovation Red Peppermint has an oval leaf while Neptis has a lanceolate leaf.
4. Ovation Red Peppermint has a small leaf length (7 to 8 cm) in comparison to the length of the Neptis leaf (10 to 11 cm), and they have similar widths (4.0 to 4.5 cm).
5. Ovation Red Peppermint has a heavy brown-purple cast to the upper and lower leaf surfaces while Neptis has only a slight reddish cast.
6. Ovation Red Peppermint has a more mounded growth habit and is more compact than Neptis, which is taller and more upright.
7. The hood of the anther of Ovation Red Peppermint has more red pigmentation than Neptis.
8. Ovation Red Peppermint has shorter flower pedicles (3.5 cm) while Neptis has longer pedicels (4.5 cm).
Campell Bruce R.
Grunberg Anne Marie
Oglevee Ltd.
Webb Ziesenheim & Logsdon Orkin & Hanson, P.C.
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