Plants – Shrub or vine – Veronica
Plant Patent
2001-04-25
2002-10-08
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Veronica
Plant Patent
active
PP013070
ABSTRACT:
BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION
Veronica spicata.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Veronica plant, botanically known as
Veronica spicata
, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Darwin's Blue’.
The new Veronica is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of an unidentified selection of
Veronica spicata
, not patented. The new Veronica was discovered by the Inventor in a controlled environment in Hillegom, The Netherlands, within a population of plants of the unidentified selection in 1998. The selection of this new Veronica was based on its dark violet blue flower color. Plants of the new Veronica have darker violet blue-colored flowers than plants of the parent selection.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by vegetative cuttings taken at Hillegom, The Netherlands since 1999, has shown that the unique features of this new Veronica are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Darwin's Blue have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity, daylength, and fertilizer rate without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Darwin's Blue’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Darwin's Blue’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Upright plant habit.
2. Freely flowering habit.
3. Dark violet blue-colored flowers.
REFERENCES:
UPOV ROM GTITM Computer Database, GTI JOUVE Retrieval Software 202/02, citation for ‘Darwin's Blue’.
Baker Wendy Couchoud
Whealy C. A.
Witteman & Co. ‘Multiflora’ B.V.
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