Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Geranium
Plant Patent
2001-04-30
2002-09-17
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Geranium
Plant Patent
active
PP012969
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Phlox plant, botanically known as
Phlox paniculata,
and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Empty Feelings’.
The new Phlox is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of the
Phlox paniculata
cultivar Popeye, not patented. The new Phlox was discovered by the Inventor in a controlled environment in Den Hoorn, The Netherlands, within a population of plants of ‘Popeye’. The selection of this new Phlox was based on its lack of typical Phlox flowers. Plants of the cultivar Popeye have typical Phlox flowers whereas plants of the new Phlox do not have typical Phlox flowers and only produce clusters of bract-like structures.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by vegetative cuttings taken at Den Hoorn, The Netherlands since May, 1999, has shown that the unique features of this new Phlox are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Empty Feelings have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity, daylength, and fertilizer rate without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Empty Feelings’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Empty Feelings’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Plants of the new Phlox have an upright plant habit.
2. Plants of the new Phlox have dark green leaves.
3. Inflorescences of plants of the new Phlox do not have typical Phlox flowers with corollas, calyces and reproductive structures; instead inflorescences of plants of the new Phlox consist of clusters of dark red bract-like structures.
Campell Bruce R.
Kizilkaya Michelle
R. van Gaalen, B.V.
Whealy C. A.
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