Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
2001-11-20
2002-11-26
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Plant Patent
active
PP013290
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION
Pulmonaria hybrid.
VARIETY DENOMINATION
‘Silver Shimmers’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct hybrid of Pulmonaria, of the family Boraginaceae, which originated as an open-pollinated cross between unknown parents in a breeding program carried out in Canby, Oreg. This is known to be an outcross because Pulmonaria does not normally self-pollinate. Due to the fact that the instant plant and parent plants are interspecific hybrids from several generations of interbreeding and selecting, no species designations are given.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This new plant is characterized by:
1)
Highly silvered foliage;
2)
Undulating leaf margins;
3)
Large, blue violet flowers;
4)
Compact habit;
5)
Excellent vigor.
This new cultivar has been reproduced only by asexual propagation (division and tissue culture). Each of the progeny exhibits identical characteristics to the original plant. Asexual propagation by tissue culture using standard micropropagation techniques with terminal and lateral shoots as done in Canby, Oreg., shows that the foregoing characteristics and distinctions come true to form and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagations. The present invention has not been evaluated under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary with variations in environment without a change in the genotype of the plant.
Campell Bruce R.
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
Para A.
Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.
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