Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Verbena
Plant Patent
2003-03-13
2004-03-09
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Verbena
Plant Patent
active
PP014590
ABSTRACT:
Genus and species: Verbena hybrida.
Variety denomination: ‘Lan Lav Star’.
BACKGROUND OF THE NEW PLANT
The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of verbena, botanically known as Verbena hybrida, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Lan Lav Star’. The new cultivar is asexually reproduced from vegetative cuttings and tissue culture resulting from the cross of the seed/pod parent Temari Purple, a commercial line that is unpatented × 99-765-5 a pink with blue tones proprietary line that is unnamed and unpatented. This seedling had a purple with a small white eye flower. The instant plant is the result of a Sport from this cross.
‘Lan Lav Star’ is a product of a planned breeding program intended to create new verbena cultivars with purple colored flowers, dark green foliage, vigorous growth.
The new cultivar was created in 1999 in Gilroy, Calif. and has been asexually reproduced repeatedly by vegetative cuttings and tissue culture in Gilroy, Calif., Andijk, The Netherlands; Guatemala over a three year period. The plant has also been trialed at Gilroy, Calif., Litchfield, Mich. and Andijk, The Netherlands. The present invention has been found to retain its distinctive characteristics through successive propagations; and this novelty is firmly fixed.
Campell Bruce R.
Goldsmith Seeds Inc.
Jondle & Associates PC
McCormick Susan B.
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