Plants – Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant – Impatiens
Plant Patent
2002-03-26
2004-01-13
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamnental flowering plant
Impatiens
Plant Patent
active
PP014461
ABSTRACT:
Latin name of genus and species of plant claimed:
Impatiens walleriana.
Variety denomination: ‘Balpixreco’.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct Impatiens plant, botanically known as
Impatiens walleriana
and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Balpixreco’.
‘Balpixreco’ is a product of a planned breeding program with the objective of developing Impatiens cultivars with small flowers and compact growth habits.
The female or seed parent of ‘Balpixreco’, ‘Red Chico’ (unpatented), has more compact growth habit than ‘Balpixreco’. The male or pollen parent of ‘Balpixreco’, proprietary Impatiens variety designated SD01033-2 (unpatented), has pink and white bicolor flowers. The new cultivar was discovered and selected as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the above stated cross during October 1999 in a controlled environment at Elburn, Ill. The new cultivar was initially designated BFP-522.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar has been carried out at West Chicago, Ill. by terminal tip cuttings and has demonstrated that the unique characteristics of the new cultivar as herein described are firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It was found that the cultivar of the present invention:
(a) exhibits small red and white bi-color flowers;
(b) forms dark green foliage;
(c) exhibits a good basal branching character; and
(d) exhibits a compact growth habit.
The new cultivar of the present invention can be compared to ‘Fify Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,753). However, in side-by-side comparisons, plants of the new cultivar are more vigorous have a shorter spur and different flower color than ‘Fify Red’.
Ball Floraplant, a division of Ball Horticultural Company
Grunberg Anne Marie
Wood Phillips Katz Clark & Mortimer
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