U.S. patent number PP32,920 [Application Number 16/873,810] was granted by the patent office on 2021-03-23 for salvia plant named `back to the fuchsia`.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Walters Gardens, Inc. The grantee listed for this patent is Hans A Hansen. Invention is credited to Hans A Hansen.
United States Patent |
PP32,920 |
Hansen |
March 23, 2021 |
Salvia plant named `Back to the Fuchsia`
Abstract
The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named
`Back to the Fuchsia` characterized by its medium-sized, dark-pink
flowers from deep purplish-red buds densely arranged in verticils
and dark greyish-red calyxes and stems with intense light. The new
plant has a medium height, compact, rounded habit with stiff,
upright, heavily-branched stems and a strong vigorous growth rate
and gray-green foliage. `Back to the Fuchsia` is useful for
landscaping as a specimen plant or en masse.
Inventors: |
Hansen; Hans A (Zeeland,
MI) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Hansen; Hans A |
Zeeland |
MI |
US |
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Assignee: |
Walters Gardens, Inc (Zeeland,
MI)
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Family
ID: |
74882466 |
Appl.
No.: |
16/873,810 |
Filed: |
July 14, 2020 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/475 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20130101); A01H 6/508 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101); A01H 6/50 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/475 |
Primary Examiner: McCormick Ewoldt; Susan
Claims
It is claimed:
1. The new and distinct perennial Salvia plant named `Back to the
Fuchsia` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical denomination: Salvia hybrid.
Cultivar designation: `Back to the Fuchsia`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)
The first non-enabling disclosure of the new plant, in the form of
a photograph and brief description on a website maintained by
Walters Gardens, Inc. first posted on Dec. 1, 2019. Subsequently,
the new plant was advertised in the "Walters Gardens 20-21 Catalog"
first distributed on May 20, 2020. The claimed plant was first sold
on Sep. 30, 2019 by Goetjes Allplant BV of The Netherlands who
obtained the plant and all information relating thereto, from the
inventor. Walters Gardens, Inc. obtained the new plant and all
information on the new plant from the inventor. No plants of Salvia
`Back to the Fuchsia` 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
perennial Salvia plant hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name
Salvia `Back to the Fuchsia` or as the new plant. The new plant was
selected from a block of seedlings resulting from an insect
pollination in late spring of 2014 with the unreleased, proprietary
hybrid known as "13-24-1 x OP" as the female or seed parent and the
male or pollen parent is unidentified sibling of "13-24-1 x OP" in
an isolation block at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland,
Mich., USA. Seed was collected on Jun. 11, 2014 and sown at the
same nursery. The new plant was initially evaluated in the summer
of 2016 and assigned the breeder code 14-10-2 through the trial
process prior to assigning a cultivar name.
The new Salvia was further evaluated and asexually propagated
initially by division and later by basal cuttings taken at the same
nursery in Zeeland, Mich., USA in 2016. Evaluation of these and
further cutting grown plants shows that Salvia `Back to the
Fuchsia` continues to be stable and produce true to type plants in
successive generations of asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of Salvia `Back to the Fuchsia` have not been observed under
all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary
somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature,
nutrition and light intensity without, however, any variance in
genotype.
Salvia `Back to the Fuchsia` can be closely compared to Salvia
`Moulin Rouge` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 32,387, `Pink Profusion` U.S.
Plant Pat. No. 31,435, `Pink Dawn` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 26,343, and
`Bumbleberry` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,602. `Moulin Rouge` has
flowers that are more rosy pink on similar size plants. `Pink
Profusion` has a shorter habit with fewer and smaller flowers per
inflorescence of a slightly different hue of violet. `Pink Dawn`
has a slightly shorter habit and flowers that are larger in size
and cotton candy pink in color. `Bumbleberry` has significantly
shorter habit and flowers of dark fuchsia-pink with dark wine
purple buds. The female parent, "13-24-1 x OP" was not maintained
in photography or plants so no comparison is possible. Comparison
with the male parent is not possible as the exact plant is not
known.
The following characteristics in combination distinguish Saliva
`Back to the Fuchsia` as a new and distinct cultivar from all other
cultivars known to the inventor: 1. Medium-sized dark-pink flowers
densely arranged in verticils; 2. Stiff, upright, heavily,
compound-branched stems; 3. Deep purplish-red flower buds; 4.
Medium height, compact, rounded, strong, vigorous and winter-hardy
habit; 5. Rugose olive-green foliage.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the unique traits and
the overall appearance of Salvia `Back to the Fuchsia`. 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 plant used in the
photographs was a three-year-old plant grown in an open, full-sun
trial garden at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich.
with supplemental water and fertilizer when needed.
FIG. 1 shows the plant habit in full flower in a landscape.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flower scape with the buds, flowers,
stems and calyxes.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The following descriptions and color references except where common
dictionary terms are used are based on the 2015 edition of The
Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart. Salvia `Back to the
Fuchsia` has not been observed under all possible environments. The
phenotype may vary slightly with different growing environments
such as temperature, light, fertility, soil pH, moisture and plant
maturity levels, but without any change in the genotype. The
following observations and size descriptions are based on
three-year-old plants growing in an outdoor full-sun trial garden
at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich. Plants were
given supplemental water and fertilizer and plant growth regulators
were used for the greenhouse trials only. Botanical classification:
Salvia hybrid; Parentage: Female or seed parent was the proprietary
hybrid "13-24-1 x OP"; male or pollen parent was an unknown sibling
of "13-24-1 x OP"; Plant habit: Winter-hardy herbaceous perennial;
multi-stemmed, compact, rounded, with mostly basal foliage, and
flowers in several tightly arranged verticils on branched upright
racemes displayed above foliage; in flower with panicles about 52
cm tall and about 84 cm wide at the fullest point; cauline foliage
extends up the stems about 30 cm; about 15 to 18 branched flowering
panicles per plant; Propagation: By basal vegetative shoot
cuttings; time to produce a rooted stems about two weeks; Growth
rate: Rapid, vigorous, finishing in a 65 mm container in about 7
weeks from rooted cutting, and from 65 mm container to flowering
3.8 liter container in about 8 weeks. Root description: Fine,
well-branched; color dependent on age and soil type, from cream to
dark tan in color; Foliage: Opposite; simple; slightly rugose;
deltoid becoming lanceolate distally; margin irregularly doubly
crenate and micro-ciliolate; adaxial surface glabrous, and abaxial
puberulent; acute apex and base cordate to truncate; leaf blades to
about 11.0 cm long and 6.5 cm across, decreasing in size distally;
average about 8.5 cm long and 5.0 cm across; faint sage fragrance;
Foliage color: Young adaxial surface nearest RHS 146B, young
abaxial surface between RHS 146C and RHS 146B; mature adaxial
nearest NN137A, mature abaxial between RHS 137B and RHS 138A;
Venation: Reticulate; impressed on adaxial side and costate on
abaxial side; pubescent abaxial, micro-puberulent adaxial; Vein
color: Adaxial midrib nearest RHS 145C; adaxial primary and
secondary veins nearest RHS 147D; abaxial midrib nearest RHS 145D;
abaxial primary veins nearest RHS 145D and secondary veins
gradually darkening to nearest RHS 145C toward leaf margin;
Petiole: Slightly concavo-convex; pubescent to glandular; to about
12.0 cm long and 8.0 mm wide at base, average 7.5 cm long and 6.0
mm wide at base; Petiole color: Adaxial distally nearest RHS 138C
and proximally RHS 138B with slight blush of and RHS N77B; abaxial
distally nearest 145D and proximally between RHS 145C moderately
blushed with RHS N77B; Flower description: Perfect; bilabiate;
zygomorphic; fused corolla portion glabrous adaxial and puberulent
abaxial; Flower size: 18.0 mm long to tip of exserted stigma, 10.0
mm tall, 6.0 mm wide; corolla 14.0 mm long, 10.0 mm tall and 6.0 mm
wide; corolla fused in basal portion 8.0 mm long, 4.5 mm tall and
2.5 mm wide; Inflorescence: Panicle; branched at about 45.degree.
angle, typically compound branched; branches to 28 cm long and 3.0
mm across base; flowering portion 22 cm tall and 22 cm across;
verticillate with flowering generally beginning at lower verticils
and advancing up the scape, but not all flowers at each verticil
opening at the same time giving the effect of a scape being in
continuous flower for longer periods; typically six flowers per
verticil; average distance between verticils about 9.3 mm, greater
proximally and less distally; about 14 verticils per main branch;
about 250 to 400 flowers per panicle; Flowering period: Flowering
beginning late spring for about six weeks and repeating if initial
inflorescences removed; Peduncle: Quadrangular; pubescent to
glandular; to 45.0 cm long and 6.0 mm across at base; Peduncle
color: Proximal portion nearest RHS 146D with sections strongly
blushed to solid nearest RHS 187A, and distally nearest RHS 146B
with blushing nearest RHS 187A becoming solid nearest RHS N186C;
Flower attitude: Flower midline projected about 10 degree angle
above horizontal and hood petal about 45 degree angle above
horizontal; Flower longevity: About four days on the plant or as
cut flower; self-cleaning, petals not persistent; Flower fragrance:
None detected under present growing conditions; Flower buds one day
prior to anthesis: Arcuate dorsally, flat ventrally and flattened
slightly laterally; with rounded apex; micro-puberulent; about 9.0
mm long, 5.0 mm tall and 3.5 mm wide; Bud color: Exposed petals
nearest RHS 71A; abaxial calyx nearest RHS N186C; Petals: Bilabiate
corolla; upper hood lip and lower lip (labium) with three lobes;
Hood (upper) petal: Micro-puberulent to micro-glandular abaxial,
glabrous adaxial; about 14.0 mm long, 3.0 mm tall and 2.5 mm
across; folded distally along longitudinal axis; apex rounded and
emarginate, with 0.5 mm deep notched apex and base fused with
labium in proximal 8.0 mm; Hood color: Adaxial nearest RHS 71B,
abaxial nearest RHS 71B; Labium (lower) petal: Consisting of three
lobes, two proximal side lobes and larger center lobe; Center
lobe.--Obcordate, cupped; truncate base and emarginate apex with
notch about 1.0 mm deep; margin slightly crenulate; puberulent in 5
mm of abaxial base before tube, glabrous adaxial and distal
abaxial; size about 11.0 mm long (including fused base) extending
3.0 mm beyond fusion point; natural width 4.0 mm and when spread to
5.0 mm. Center lobe color: Adaxial nearest RHS 71B and abaxial
nearest RHS 71B; Side lobes: Oblong to oblanceolate; apices
rounded; base fused to corolla tube; slightly twisted; glabrous
adaxial and abaxial; size about 3.5 mm long from fusion and 1.0 mm
wide; Side lobes color: Nearest RHS 71B adaxial and abaxial;
Corolla tube base color: Androecium: Two, fused with labium,
contained within hood petal except when triggered by pollinator;
Filament.--Glabrous, fused about 4.0 mm from base of labium petal;
arcuate around inside of hood petal; about 9.0 mm long and less
than 0.5 mm diameter, free in distal 5.0 mm, with a 1.0 mm long
trip mechanism longitudinally folded at base; color of filament
nearest RHS 64B at base and distally nearest RHS 64D; color of trip
mechanism nearest RHS 64B. Anther.--Glabrous; oblong ellipsoidal;
dorsifixed; longitudinal; about 1.0 mm long and 0.5 mm diameter;
color nearest RHS N187A. Pollen.--Abundant; less than 0.1 mm
circumference; color nearest RHS 13A. Gynoecium: One, arcuate
around inside of hood petal; Style.--Exserted; about 19.0 mm long
and 0.5 mm diameter; color nearest RHS 69D at base, transitioning
distally about 2.0 mm before stigma split to nearest RHS 70A.
Stigma.--Bifurcate and curved in the terminal 1.5 mm; about 0.2 mm
diameter; apex acute; color nearest RHS 70A. Ovary.--Superior; four
seeded; color nearest RHS 163B. Fruit: Nutlet, one to four per
flower; globose; about 2.0 mm diameter; color darker than RHS 200A;
Calyx: Campanulate; fused in basal 5.0 mm; tube about 9.0 mm long
and 5.0 mm tall at mouth and 4.0 mm wide; lower set bifurcate in
distal 0.5 mm; upper set of trifurcate in distal 1.0 mm; Sepals:
Five, three upper and two lower; linear; acute apex; fused in basal
4.0 mm; Sepal color: Adaxial nearest RHS 146C with veins nearest
RHS 137C; abaxial variable with light intensity, high light
producing nearest RHS N186C with veins also nearest RHS N186C, and
in lower light nearest RHS 137B with veins nearest RHS N186C;
Bracts: Each verticil subtended by two opposite deltoid bracts;
apex narrowly acute to acuminate, base sessile and truncate, margin
crenate; glabrous adaxial and pubescent abaxial; bract size up to
20.0 mm long and 18.0 mm wide, decreasing distally; Bract color:
Variable with light intensity, in lower light adaxial surfaces
between RHS 137A and RHS NN37A with midrib nearest RHS 145D,
abaxial nearest RHS NN137C with midrib of nearest RHS 145D; color
with more intense light exposure blushed with nearest RHS N186C; on
both surfaces; Pedicels: Cylindrical; puberulent to glandular; to
about 4.0 mm long and 0.7 mm diameter; slightly upwardly at flower
anthesis; Pedicel color: Variable with light intensity, high light
exposure nearest RHS N186C, low light exposure nearest RHS 144B;
Culture: Plants of Salvia `Back to the Fuchsia` perform best with
adequate moisture and good drainage and are hardy from USDA zone 3
to 8. Disease and pest resistance: Resistant to diseases and pests
beyond that common to Salvia has not been noted.
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