U.S. patent number PP31,284 [Application Number 16/350,939] was granted by the patent office on 2019-12-24 for pulmonaria plant named `pretty in pink`.
The grantee listed for this patent is Hans A Hansen. Invention is credited to Hans A Hansen.
United States Patent |
PP31,284 |
Hansen |
December 24, 2019 |
Pulmonaria plant named `Pretty in Pink`
Abstract
A new and distinct hybrid of Lungwort plant named Pulmonaria
`Pretty in Pink` characterized by silver spotting on medium green
foliage, medium pink flower buds on dense, upright, highly branched
stems, that open and retain their bright rose-pink color on mostly
outright to slightly drooping campanulate flowers. The new plants
show excellent vigor and good mildew resistance.
Inventors: |
Hansen; Hans A (Zeeland,
MI) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Hansen; Hans A |
Zeeland |
MI |
US |
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Family
ID: |
68979834 |
Appl.
No.: |
16/350,939 |
Filed: |
February 1, 2019 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/473 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20130101); A01H 6/00 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/473 |
Primary Examiner: Para; Annette H
Claims
I claim:
1. The new and distinct cultivar of Pulmonaria plant named `Pretty
in Pink` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical denomination: Pulmonaria hybrid.
Variety designation: `Pretty in Pink`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)
The first public disclosure of the claimed plant, in the form of a
photograph and brief description on a website operated by Walters
Gardens, Inc. on Feb. 1, 2018. The claimed plant was first sold on
Jul. 9, 2018 by Walters Gardens, Inc., who obtained the plant and
all information relating thereto, from the inventor. No plants of
Pulmonaria `Pretty in Pink` have been sold in this country or
anywhere in the world, nor has any disclosure of the new plant been
made, more than one year prior to the filing date of this
application, and such sale or disclosure within one year was either
derived directly or indirectly from the inventor.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Pulmonaria and given the cultivar name of `Pretty in Pink`.
Pulmonaria is in the family Boraginaceae. The new cultivar
originated from a multiple generation crossing beginning with `Pink
Haze` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,307 selected in a private garden in
Zeeland, Mich., USA in May of 2015.
The new plant was initially asexually propagated at the same
nursery in the summer of 2016 by division of the rhizome and
followed by plant tissue culture of the shoot tip. The result
plants have shown themselves to be stable and true to type in
successive generations of asexual propagation by division at the
same nursery in Zeeland, Mich. and also through shoot tip tissue
culture.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Compared with `Pink Haze`, the new plant has darker pink flower
buds, the foliage is more ovate and less oblanceolate and the color
is more yellow-green with dapped spots of lighter yellow-green.
Compared with the male parent and female parents, the new cultivar
has better pink flower color and the flower stems are more upright.
The nearest comparison plants known to the inventor include: `Dora
Bielefeld` (not patented), and `Pierre's Pure Pink` (not patented).
`Pierre's Pure Pink` has lighter pink flowers that are more cupped
and not as flared, and the habit and foliage are smaller. `Dora
Bielefeld` has smaller and more cupped flowers and the foliage is
pale green.
Pulmonaria `Pretty in Pink` is distinct from all other lungwort
plants known to the inventor by the following combined traits: 1.
Medium pink flower buds on upright highly-branched stems in
mid-spring; 2. Pink flower buds open to consistently bright,
rose-pink, campanulate flowers on numerous dense panicles; 3.
Medium green foliage with prominent silver spotting on both cauline
leaves and basal leaves arising after flowering; 4. Excellent vigor
producing compact mounded habit; and 5. Foliage shows good mildew
resistance.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the unique traits of
the new plant and the overall appearance. The colors are as
accurate as reasonably possible with color reproductions. Variation
in ambient light spectrum, source and direction may cause the
appearance of minor variation in color. The accompanying
photographs are of a three-year-old plant growing in a partially
shaded garden in Zeeland, Mich.
FIG. 1 shows the spring foliage and flowering habit of the new
plant.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of flowers and buds of the new plant.
DETAILED PLANT DESCRIPTION
The following is a detailed description of a three-year-old plant
of `Pretty in Pink` as grown outdoors in a partially shaded trial
plot at a wholesale nursery in Zeeland, Mich. Plants of the new
cultivar have not been tested under all possible conditions. The
phenotype may vary with changes in environment, climate, and
cultural conditions without change however in the genotype. The
color references are in accordance with the 2015 edition of The
Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where general color
dictionary terms are used. Parentage: Multigenerational crossing
originating with `Pink Haze`; Plant habit: Herbaceous, perennial
forming low, multi-stemmed, flowering mound in spring followed in
summer producing a clumping basal rosette; Size: With spring
flowering 76.0 cm wide and 37.0 cm tall; summer foliage size 80.0
cm wide and 35.0 cm tall; Vigor: Excellent; produces rooted
plantlet in tissue culture in about 14 to 20 days; fills a 3.8
liter container in about 10 weeks from tissue cultured plug;
Propagation: Division of the crown or tissue culture; Roots:
Fleshy, to about 3.0 mm thick; near white depending on soil type;
Leaves: In basal rosette; developing prior to cymes dehiscing;
simple; oblanceolate; hispid to hispidulous abaxial and adaxial;
apex acute; base attenuate, semi-clasping; margin entire,
ciliolate; with spots on adaxial surface between 0.5 mm and
frequently running together to about 0.0 mm in diameter; Leaf size:
To about 24.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide at the center; average about
22.0 cm long and 7.2 cm wide; Cauline leaf: Alternate; simple;
ovate to oblanceolate; hispidulous abaxial and adaxial; acute apex;
base attenuate, sessile, clasping; margin ciliolate and entire;
with spots on adaxial surface between 0.5 mm and 4.0 mm diameter;
to 8.5 cm long and 25.0 mm wide decreasing distally; average about
eight cauline leaves per stem below flowers; cauline leaves and
stems not persistent, drying after seed production; Leaf color
(basal and cauline): Adaxial between RHS 137A and RHS 137B with
irregular spotted silver portions nearest RHS 194C; abaxial between
RHS 147B and RHS 147C; Venation: Pinnate; only abaxial and adaxial
midrib distinct; hispid to hispidulous abaxial and adaxial; Vein
color: Adaxial midrib nearest RHS 146D; abaxial midrib nearest RHS
146D; Petiole description: Concavo-convex; scabrous; Petiole size:
To about 11.0 cm long and 12.0 mm wide at base; average about 10.0
cm long and 11.0 mm wide; Petiole color: Adaxial and abaxial margin
nearest RHS 137B; adaxial center nearest 145C; abaxial longitudinal
center nearest RHS 145C in basal portion, distally nearest a blend
between RHS 160C and RHS 146D; Inflorescence: Terminal branched
cyme; about 80 cymes per plant with 15 to 27 flowers per cyme,
average 21 flowers per cyme; Flowering period: Beginning about
mid-April and continuing for about four weeks; Flower longevity:
Individual flowers open for about four days; Flower fragrance: None
detected; Peduncle: Cylindrical; hispidulous; about 37 cm long,
about 5.0 mm diameter at base; upright; Peduncle color: Blend
between RHS 146D and RHS N144D; Pedicel: Cylindrical; hispidulous;
to about 2.0 mm long and about 1.0 mm diameter; color nearest RHS
146D; Flower bud: Oblong ovoid; to about 14.0 mm long and 5.0 mm
wide at petals and calyx about 3.5 mm diameter; Flower bud color:
One day prior to opening calyx nearest RHS 138B with exposed petal
nearest RHS 51B; Flower: Campanulate, actinomorphic, forming
funnelform corolla; size 20.0 mm long and 18.0 mm wide; Petals:
Typically five; fused in basal 15.0 mm with rounded apices; margins
entire; glabrous abaxial and adaxial except for adaxial pubescent
with tufts of hairs about 2.0 mm long about 8.0 mm to 11.0 mm from
base; about 19.0 mm long and 9.0 mm across at fusion; Petal color:
Young adaxial face nearest RHS 64D, tube nearest RHS 155C, abaxial
face nearest RHS 63C, tube base nearest RHS 155C with spots near
mouth of tube nearest RHS 64A; mature adaxial face nearest RHS 63C,
base nearest RHS NN155C with spots of nearest RHS 77A, abaxial face
nearest RHS 55C, tube base nearest RHS 155C with two spots per
petal between tube and face of nearest RHS 70A; Calyx description:
Campanulate; abaxial and adaxial hirsutulous; about 11.0 mm long
and 4.0 mm across at apex; Sepals: Five; apices narrowly acute;
about 11.0 mm long and 2.5 mm across at fusion, fused in basal
about 8.0 mm; hispid abaxial and hispidulous adaxial; Sepal color:
Adaxial nearest RHS 146C; abaxial nearest RHS 138B with tinting of
nearest N186C in apical 2.0 mm, Gynoecium: One; pistil to about 13
mm long; Ovary: Partially inferior, four-chambered; globose to
about 1.5 mm diameter; color nearest RHS 144C; Style: Cylindrical;
glabrous; about 8.0 mm long and about 0.5 mm diameter at base;
color nearest RHS 157B; Stigma: Flattened; bifid; to about 0.5 mm
diameter and 0.3 mm tall; color nearest RHS 155A; Androecium: Five;
Filament: Entirely adnate about 3.5 mm above base of inner corolla;
color nearest RHS NN155D; Anther: Fused to petal; introrse;
dorsifixed; longitudinal; oblong about 2.5 mm long and 1.0 mm
diameter; color nearest RHS N187A; Pollen: Abundant; color RHS
NN155B; Seed: To about four per flower, held within calyx; globose
with rounded base and acute apex; about 1.0 mm diameter; color
nearest RHS N199B; Resistance to pest and diseases: Pulmonaria
`Pretty in Pink` has good mildew resistance, but not shown any
resistance or susceptibility beyond that common to other lungwort.
Hardiness: The new plant is hardy from at least USDA hardiness
zones 3 through 9.
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