Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Verbena
Plant Patent
2004-02-10
2004-12-07
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Verbena
Plant Patent
active
PP015414
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Verbena hybrida
cultivar Comiverd.
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 name ‘Comiverd’.
The new
Verbena
is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Bene-Zion and Kfar-Hanagid, Israel. The objective of the breeding program is to develop new
Verbena
cultivars with double flowers and attractive flower coloration.
The new
Verbena
originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in February, 2001 of a proprietary selection of
Verbena hybrida
identified as code number VA-23, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary selection of
Verbena hybrida
identified as code number VB-3, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar Comiverd was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant from within the progeny from this cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Kfar-Hanagid, Israel in March, 2002.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Kfar-Hanagid, Israel, since April, 2002, 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 ‘Comiverd’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Comiverd’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, mounded and cascading plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit; dense and bushy growth habit.
3. Dark green-colored leaves.
4. Double flowers with dark red-colored petals and petaloids.
Plants of the new
Verbena
are most similar to the parent selections. Plants of the new
Verbena
differ primarily from plants of the parent selections and cultivars known to the Inventor in flower form as plants of the parent selections and cultivars known to the Inventor have single flowers.
Campell Bruce R.
Cohen Nurseries
Kizilkaya Michelle
Whealy C. A.
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