Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2000-06-01
2002-08-13
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP012841
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a new and distinctive cultivar of Impatiens plant, botanically known as Impatiens, commercially known as New Guinea Impatiens, and known by the cultivar name ‘Serenity’. ‘Serenity’ was developed in a controlled breeding program by crossing Waller Seedling No. 96-2E-110-17 (seed parent) with Waller Seedling No. 95-1E-15 (pollen parent). Both parents are proprietary breeding lines which have not been sold or made publicly available in this country.
Asexual reproduction carried out in Lompoc, Calif. by terminal or stem cuttings 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 distinguish the new Impatiens from both its parent varieties and other cultivated Impatiens of this type known to the inventor and used in the floriculture industry:
1. ‘Serenity’ has orange flowers of Red Group 40A with ‘Antigua’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,283) having Red Group 41A colored flowers and ‘Celebration Orange’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,078) having Orange-Red Group 33A colored flowers.
2. The flower diameter of ‘Serenity’ is similar to ‘Antigua’ (6.5 to 7.0 cm) but smaller than ‘Celebration Orange’ (7.5 to 8.0 cm).
3. ‘Serenity’ has smaller leaves at 9 to 10 cm in length than ‘Antigua’ (11 to 12 cm long) and ‘Celebration Orange’ (13 to 14 cm long).
4. The spurs of ‘Serenity’ are red-purple with green tips while both ‘Antigua’ and ‘Celebration Orange’ have red-purple spurs with red-purple tips.
5. ‘Serenity’ has a green pedicel with a faint red-purple cast near the flower end, while ‘Antigua’ has a moderate red-purple cast on the entire pedicel, and ‘Celebration Orange’ has a heavy red-purple cast on the pedicel.
6. ‘Serenity’ has a green midrib on the underside of the leaf while ‘Antigua’ and ‘Celebration Orange’ both have red-purple midribs on the leaves.
7. ‘Serenity’ has the least amount of anthocyanin pigment in stems with ‘Antigua’ having the most.
8. ‘Serenity’ has a more mounded growth habit than either of ‘Antigua’ or ‘Celebration Orange’ which are both more upright in habit.
REFERENCES:
patent: PP9742 (1996-12-01), Dummen
patent: PP10048 (1997-09-01), Trees
patent: PP11710 (2000-12-01), Klemm
Campell Bruce R.
McCormick Susan B.
Oglevee Ltd.
Webb Ziesenheim & Logsdon Orkin & Hanson, P.C.
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