Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1999-12-31
2001-06-19
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011951
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant, botanically known as
Verbena×hybrida,
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Balwildaav.
The new Verbena is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Somerville, Tenn. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new cultivars with a mounded decumbent plant habit, continuous flowering, freely-branching growth habit, and attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Verbena originated from self-pollination made by the Inventor of the
Verbena×hybrida
cultivar Blue Princess, not patented. The cultivar Balwildaav was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Somerville in 1997. Plants of the new Verbena differs from plants of the cultivar Blue Princess and a sibling cultivar, Balwilblu (U.S. Plant Patent application filed concurrently with this application) primarily in flower color.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Somerville has shown that the unique features of this new Verbena are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Balwildaav’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Balwildaav’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Purple-colored flowers.
2. Mounded, low-growing, decumbent plant habit.
3. Freely basal-branching.
The new Verbena can be compared to the cultivar, Sunmaref TP-V, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,411. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Somerville plants of the new Verbena differ from plants of the cultivar Sunmaref TP-V in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Verbena have larger flowers than plants of the cultivar Sunmarek TP-V.
2. Plants of the new Verbena have fewer flowers per spike than plants of the cultivar Sunmarek TP-V.
3. Plants of the new Verbena and the cultivar Sunmaref TP-V differ in flower color.
Ball Floraplant a division of Ball Horticultural Co.
Campell Bruce R.
Para Annette H.
Whealy C. A.
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