Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2003-06-23
2004-11-23
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP015367
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Polemonium hybrida
cultivar Polbress.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Polemonium
plant, botanically known as
Polemonium hybrida
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Polbress’.
The new
Polemonium
originated from a cross-pollination in 1995 of the
Polemonium
cultivar Purple Rain, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with an unindentified selection of
Polemonium yezoense
, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar Polbress was discovered and selected by the Inventors as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in June, 1996 in Bressingham, Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by divisions and basal cuttings taken at Bressingham, Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom, since April, 1997, has shown that the unique features of this new
Polemonium
are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Polbress have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature and light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Polbress’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Polbress’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright plant habit; strong and erect flowering stems.
2. Purple-colored foliage.
3. Freely flowering habit.
4. Light violet blue-colored flowers with bright yellow-colored anthers.
Plants of the new
Polemonium
are most similar to plants of the female parent, the cultivar Purple Rain. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Bressingham, Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom, plants of the new
Polemonium
differed from plants of the cultivar Purple Rain in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Polemonium
were taller and broader than plants of the cultivar Purple Rain.
2. Plants of the new
Polemonium
had larger leaves than plants of the cultivar Purple Rain.
3. Fully expanded leaves of plants of the new
Polemonium
were purple in color whereas fully expanded leaves of plants of the cultivar Purple Rain were light green flushed with purple.
4. Plants of the new
Polemonium
were more freely flowering than plants of the cultivar Purple Rain.
5. Plants of the new
Polemonium
had taller inflorescences than plants of the cultivar Purple Rain.
6. Flowering stems of plants of the new
Polemonium
were more erect than the flowering stems of plants of the cultivar Purple Rain.
Plants of the new
Polemonium
can also be compared to plants of the male parent selection. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Bressingham, Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom, plants of the new
Polemonium
differed from plants of the male parent selection in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Polemonium
were taller than and not as spreading as plants of the male parent selection.
2. Fully expanded leaves of plants of the new
Polemonium
were purple in color whereas fully expanded leaves of plants of the male parent selection were green in color.
3. Flowers of plants of the new
Polemonium
were more violet in color than plants of the male parent selection.
Bloom Adrian
Gooderham Paul
Bell Kent
Blooms of Bressingham Ltd.
Krawczewicz Myers Louanne
Whealy C. A.
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