Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Verbena
Plant Patent
2001-03-30
2002-07-23
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Verbena
Plant Patent
active
PP012790
ABSTRACT:
LATIN NAME OF GENUS AND SPECIES OF PLANT CLAIMED
Verbena hybrida.
VARIETY DENOMINATION
‘Balazplum’.
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 ‘Balazplum’.
The new cultivar was developed by the inventor through a controlled breeding program during 1998 at Arroyo Grande, Calif. The objective of the 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 ‘Balazplum’ was the proprietary verbena cultivar designated PAS36117 (not patented), which exhibits a semi-trailing habit, dark purple flowers and serrated, medium green foliage. The male (pollen) parent of ‘Balazplum’ was the commercially available verbena cultivar, ‘Temari Patio Hot Pink’ (not patented), which exhibits a vigorous, trailing habit, hot pink flowers and dark 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) exhibits purple flowers,
(b) forms deeply cleft, dark green foliage
(c) exhibits a good basal branching character and
(d) exhibits a mounded and trailing growth habit.
The new cultivar of the present invention can be compared to ‘Temari Bright Pink’. In side by side comparison, plants of the new cultivar differ from plants of ‘Temari Bright Pink’ by the following characteristics: it is found that the new cultivar is taller, has larger more deeply cleft leaves and flowers and calyx of a different color as detailed in TABLE A.
When the new cultivar of the present invention is compared to its seed parent, PAS36117, the new cultivar is distinguished from ‘PAS36117’ primarily in petal coloration and leaf margin. When the new cultivar of the present invention is compared to its pollen parent, ‘Temari Patio Hot Pink’, the new cultivar is distinguished from ‘Temari Patio Hot Pink’ primarily in petal coloration.
Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural Company
Bell Kent L.
Campell Bruce R.
Gardner Carton & Douglas
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