Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Verbena
Plant Patent
2001-03-14
2002-07-30
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Verbena
Plant Patent
active
PP012807
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct verbena plant, botanically known as
Verbena hybrida
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Balazdapi’.
The new cultivar was developed by the inventor through a controlled breeding program during 1998, at Arroyo Grande, Calif. The objective of breeding program was the development of verbena cultivars with semi-trailing mounded habit, continuous flowering, excellent basal branching and small, dark green foliage.
The female (seed) parent of ‘Balazdapi’ was the commercially available seed verbena ‘Quartz Blue’ (unpatented), which exhibits dark purple flowers with white “eye”, upright growth habit and medium green foliage. The male (pollen) parent of ‘Balazdapi’ was the commercially available verbena ‘Temari Violet’ (unpatented) which exhibits dark lavender flowers, a trailing growth habit and medium green foliage.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings in Arroyo Grande, Calif. and West Chicago, Ill. has demonstrated that the characteristics of the new cultivar as herein described are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
It was found that the cultivar of the present invention:
(a) exhiits dark purple flowers,
(b) forms dark green serrate foliage,
(c) exhibits a good basal branching character and
(d) exhibits an upright mounded and trailing growth habit.
The new cultivar of the present invention can be compared to its male parent, ‘Temari Violet’. In side by side comparison, the new cultivar differs from the ‘Temari Violet’ cultivar by the following characteristics: it is found that the new cultivar has larger leaves, more flowers per inflorescence, petals that are more overlapping and flowers of a different color as detailed in Table A.
When the new cultivar of the present invention is compared to ‘Balazlavi’ (co-pending U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/808,318), the new cultivar is distinguished from ‘Balazlavi’ primarily in petal coloration. When the new cultivar of the present invention is compared to ‘Balwilapi’ (co-pending U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/822,611), the new cultivar is distinguished from ‘Balwilapi’ primarily in petal coloration.
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