Plants – Shrub or vine
Plant Patent
2003-01-13
2004-10-12
Grunberg, Anne Marie (Department: 1661)
Plants
Shrub or vine
Plant Patent
active
PP015234
ABSTRACT:
Botanical/commercial classification:
Lonicera nitida/Lonicera
Plant.
Varietal denomination: cv. ‘Briloni’.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a new and distinct cultivar of
Lonicera nitida,
and hereafter is referred to by the cultivar name ‘Briloni’. Plants of this species sometimes are called Box Honeysuckle.
A single plant possessing the characteristics of the new cultivar was discovered at Saint Barthélémy d'Anjou, Maine et Loire, France while growing among a block of plants of the ‘Maigrün’ cultivar (non-patented in the United States). The new cultivar of the present invention is believed to be a spontaneous mutation of the ‘Maigrün’ cultivar of unknown causation. I was attracted to the new cultivar primarily because of its distinctive foliage coloration that differed from that of the parental cultivar. Had the plant of this new cultivar not been discovered and preserved it would have been lost to mankind.
It was found that the new
Lonicera nitida
plant displays the following combination of characteristics:
(a) forms attractive new foliage that bears yellow-green coloration unlike that of the ‘Maigrün’ cultivar (non-patented in the United States),
(b) possesses a spreading growth habit,
(c) grows well in a semi-shaded environment, and
(d) provides attractive ornamentation.
The new cultivar of the present invention can be readily distinguished from plants of the ‘Maigrün’ cultivar which forms new foliage that is consistently more green in coloration. Accordingly, the new foliage of the ‘Briloni’ cultivar is significantly more yellow and is often variegated yellow-green and green in coloration. Additionally, the ‘Baggeen's Gold’ cultivar (non-patented in the United States) while forming yellow foliage displays a significantly different growth habit. More specifically, the growth habit of the ‘Baggeen's Gold’ cultivar is upright and that of the new cultivar is spreading.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by the use of cuttings as performed at Saint Barthélémy d'Anjou, Maine et Loire, France, has demonstrated that the characteristics of the new cultivar are firmly fixed and are retained through successive generations of asexual propagation.
The new cultivar well meets the needs of the horticultural industry and can be used to provide attractive ornamentation when grown in pots or in the landscape. Unlike some
Lonicera
plants, the new cultivar grows well in a semi-shaded environment.
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