U.S. patent number PP32,939 [Application Number 16/873,337] was granted by the patent office on 2021-03-30 for x mangave plant named `life on mars`.
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 |
PP32,939 |
Hansen |
March 30, 2021 |
x Mangave plant named `Life on Mars`
Abstract
A new and unique x Mangave plant named `Life on Mars`
characterized by a medium, rounded mound of fleshy, linear to
lanceolate leaves that are slightly arching margins and develop
glaucous, blue-green with lighter greenish-white to creamy yellow
margins and developing bright reddish-purple splotches of variable
sizes with high ultraviolet light. The leaves have numerous small,
semi-flexible marginal teeth. The new plant is suitable for the
garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.
Inventors: |
Hansen; Hans A (Zeeland,
MI) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Hansen; Hans A |
Zeeland |
MI |
US |
|
|
Assignee: |
Walters Gardens, Inc (Zeeland,
MI)
|
Family
ID: |
75164286 |
Appl.
No.: |
16/873,337 |
Filed: |
March 23, 2020 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/373 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/00 (20180501); A01H 5/12 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/12 (20180101); A01H 6/00 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/373 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Hwu; June
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental x Mangave plant named
`Life on Mars` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical classification: x Mangave hybrid.
Variety denomination: `Life on Mars`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(B)(6)
No plants of x Mangave `Life on Mars` have been sold, in this
country or anywhere in the world, nor has any disclosure of the new
plant been made as of the filing of this application.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to the new and distinct x Mangave
hybrid plant, x Mangave `Life on Mars` that was discovered by the
inventor at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich., USA as
a whole plant mutation of `Mission to Mars` U.S. Plant Pat. No.
29,393 in a batch of tissue culture propagated plants. The new
plant was discovered on Jun. 14, 2019. Through trials at the same
nursery the plant was assigned the code 19-SP-MANG-851-Q. The new
plant has been successfully asexually propagated by sterile
shoot-tip tissue culture and by basal offsets at the same nursery
in Zeeland, Mich. The asexual tissue culture propagation has been
found to produce stable and identical plants that maintain all the
unique characteristics of the original plant.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
x Mangave `Life on Mars` differs from its parents as well as all
other Manfreda, Agave and x Mangave known to the applicant. The
parent lacks the lighter margin of the leaves. The nearest
comparison plants with variegation are: `Kaleidoscope` U.S. Plant
Pat. No. 28,614, `Navajo Princess` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,136,
`Pineapple Punch` U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 16/602,654
and `Snow Leopard` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,137. `Kaleidoscope` has
leaves that are thinner, narrower, less arching, and the marginal
variegation is more yellowish with fewer and smaller reddish purple
spots. `Navajo Princess` has more stiff, folded leaves with margins
that are more creamy-white, and the foliage is more glaucous blue
with fewer and smaller greyed reddish-purple spotting. `Pineapple
Punch` is more upright in habit with shorter leaves having a more
yellowish margin and smaller, less-intense, greyed reddish-purple
blotching. `Snow Leopard` has narrower, less arching leaves with
margins that are more white, and the foliage is more glaucous blue
with fewer and smaller greyed reddish-purple spotting.
`Life on Mars` is unique from all of the above cultivars and all
Agave, x Mangave and Manfreda known to the inventor by the
following combined traits: 1. Medium, rounded mound of linear to
lanceolate, slightly arching, sarcous leaves; 2. Leaves are
bluish-green and have a variegated lighter margin with
greenish-white to creamy yellow in lower light intensity and
developing bright reddish-purple splotches with higher ultraviolet
intensity; 3. Leaf margins have many, small-sized, semi-flexible,
marginal teeth; 4. Moderate to rapid growth rate;
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The photograph of x Mangave `Life on Mars` demonstrates the overall
appearance of the new plant including the unique traits as a
nine-month-old plant grown in a greenhouse under low ultraviolet
light in Zeeland, Mich. The colors are as accurate as reasonably
possible with color reproductions. Ambient light spectrum,
temperature, source and direction may cause the appearance of minor
variation in color.
FIG. 1 shows the young foliage with marginal teeth from above.
FIG. 2 shows a side view.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The following descriptions and color references are based on the
2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except
where common dictionary terms are used. The new plant, x Mangave
`Life on Mars`, has not been observed under all possible
environments. The phenotype may vary slightly with different
environmental conditions, such as temperature, light, fertility,
moisture and maturity levels, but without any change in the
genotype. The following observations and size descriptions are of a
nine-month-old plant in a commercial wholesale greenhouse in
Zeeland, Mich. with supplemental water and fertilizer as needed.
Parentage: An uninduced whole plant sport of `Mission to Mars`;
Propagation: By sterile shoot-tip tissue culture; Time to initiate
roots from tissue culture: About three weeks; Growth rate: Moderate
to rapid; Crop time: About 16 to 20 weeks to finish in a 3.8 liter
container from a 35 mm tissue culture growing at about 21.degree.
C.; Rooting habit: Fleshy, lightly branching, with roots up to 20
cm long; Root color: Nearest RHS 158B; Plant shape and habit:
Succulent herbaceous perennial with basal rosettes of about 18
leaves radially emerging and slightly arching from central stem,
producing a radially-symmetrical, rounded mound; Plant size:
Foliage height about 19.0 cm tall from soil line to the top of the
leaves and about 38.0 cm wide at the widest point just above soil
level; Stem: To about 2.5 cm across; covered with foliage; Foliage
description: Linear to lanceolate; simple; sessile; bi-laterally
symmetrical; sarcous; apex narrowly acute with terminal spine; base
truncate and clasping; margins flat; serrate with small, flexible,
outwardly pointing teeth; both adaxial and abaxial glabrous and
glaucous, becoming lustrous adaxial; Leaf size: To about 29.0 cm
long, about 55.0 mm wide toward middle, about 3.5 cm wide at base;
and about 5.0 mm thick; spotting variable sizes from 4.0 mm
diameter to overlapping and nearly solid in high intensity
ultraviolet light; Variegation: Adaxial to about 18.0 mm wide in
middle; abaxial to about 6.0 mm wide; Leaf blade color: Adaxial
margin (low light).--Blend between RHS 144D and RHS 145D in
perimeter half and interior half nearest blend between RHS N138D
and RHS 145D with faint overtone spots nearest RHS 180B. Adaxial
center (low light).--Darker than RHS 139A with faint spots of
nearest RHS 183D. Abaxial margin (low light).--Nearest blend
between RHS 138C and RHS 138B, typically without spots. Abaxial
center (low light).--Darker than RHS 139A with midrib nearest 138A
without spots. Adaxial margin (high light).--Blend between RHS 139C
and RHS 139D with spots to near solid sections nearest RHS N186C.
Adaxial center (high light).--Nearest RHS N138A with spots to near
solid sections nearest RHS N186C. Abaxial margin (high
light).--Nearest RHS 138B with spots nearest RHS 183A. Abaxial
center (high light).--Nearest RHS 139A with spots nearest RHS N186C
and surrounding midrib nearest RHS 138A. Foliage fragrance: None
observed; Apical spine: About 8.0 mm long and 1.0 mmm wide;
semi-flexible; color nearest RHS 200B; Marginal teeth: Small,
semi-flexible; protruding about 1.0 mm long from margin and 1.0 mm
wide at base, average spacing about 2.8 mm apart; color variable,
nearest RHS 157D to RHS 164B on young leaves and nearest RHS 165A
mature leaves; Petiole: Leaves sessile; Veins: Parallel; not
distinct abaxial or adaxial; Flower description: Not yet observed;
Fruit and seed not observed; Disease resistance: X Mangave `Life on
Mars` has not been observed to be resistant to diseases beyond that
which is normal for x Mangave, Agave or Manfreda. The new plant is
xeromorphic and survives well with minimal water once established.
The new plant is estimated to be hardy at least from USDA zone 9.
Full extent of winter hardiness has not been tested.
* * * * *