Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-12-31
2001-12-18
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012290
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Double Petunia plant, botanically known as
Petunia×hybrida
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Balrufvein.
The new Petunia is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Arroyo Grande, Calif. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new Petunia cultivars with large double flowers; freely-branching vigorous growth habit; and attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Petunia originated from a cross made by the Inventor of an unidentified selection of
Petunia×hybrida
described as a double white-flowered selection, as the male, or pollen parent, with the proprietary selection of
Petunia×hybrida
identified as code number 3404-4 as the female, or seed parent. The cultivar Balrufvein was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Arroyo Grande in 1998. Plants of the new Petunia and a sibling cultivar, Balrufbrip (U.S. Plant Patent application filed concurrently with this application), differ primarily in flower color.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Arroyo Grande, has shown that the unique features of this new Petunia are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Balrufvein’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balrufvein’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Light purple with dark veined double flowers.
2. Mounded and eventually trailing plant habit.
3. Very freely basal-branching habit.
The new Petunia can be compared to the cultivar, Cascadia Double Pink, not patented. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Arroyo Grande, plants of the new Petunia differ from plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Petunia are taller and more vigorous than plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
2. Stem and foliage colors of plants of the new Petunia are lighter green than stem and foliage color than plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
3. Plants of the new Petunia have much larger flowers than plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
4. Flower color of plants of the new Petunia is slightly darker than flower color of plants of the cultivar Cascadia Double Pink.
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