Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Verbena
Plant Patent
2001-04-13
2002-09-17
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Verbena
Plant Patent
active
PP012976
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 name ‘Kiesel UCP’.
The new Verbena was discovered by the Inventor in 1997 as a naturally-occurring branch mutation of an unnamed
Verbena hybrida
seedling selection in a greenhouse in Venhuizen, The Netherlands. The new Verbena was selected by the Inventor on the basis of its unique flower color and compact growth habit.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Venhuizen, The Netherlands, since the winter of 1998, 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 ‘Kiesel UCP’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Kiesel UCP’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Compact, mounded and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching habit.
3. Dark green leaves; densely foliated.
4. Purple-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Verbena differ primarily from plants of the mutation parent in flower color and plant habit.
The new Verbena can be compared to the
Verbena hybrida
cultivar Calvado Scarlet, not patented. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted by the Inventor in Venhuizen, The Netherlands, plants of the new Verbena differ from plants of the cultivar Calvado Scarlet in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Verbena are more spreading and not as trailing as plants of the cultivar Calvado Scarlet.
2. Plants of the new Verbena are stronger than plants of the cultivar Calvado Scarlet.
3. Flower color of plants of the new Verbena is more intense than flower color of plants of the cultivar Calvado Scarlet.
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