U.S. patent number PP32,973 [Application Number 16/350,862] was granted by the patent office on 2021-04-13 for lagerstroemia plant named `lava java`.
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 |
PP32,973 |
Hansen |
April 13, 2021 |
Lagerstroemia plant named `Lava Java`
Abstract
The new and distinct crape myrtle plant named Lagerstroemia
`Lava Java` has a dense, broadly-spreading, mounded habit, is
ground hardy to at least USDA zone 6, has glossy, dark-green
foliage with faint marginal wine blush that emerge deep
mahogany-colored. The flowers cover the shrub with magenta-rose
from shiny reddish buds. The new plant resists leaf spot and
powdery mildew and is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en
masse, or as a container plant.
Inventors: |
Hansen; Hans A (Zeeland,
MI) |
Applicant: |
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State |
Country |
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Hansen; Hans A |
Zeeland |
MI |
US |
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Assignee: |
Walters Gardens Inc (Zeeland,
MI)
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Family
ID: |
71733018 |
Appl.
No.: |
16/350,862 |
Filed: |
January 24, 2019 |
Prior Publication Data
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Document
Identifier |
Publication Date |
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US 20200245519 P1 |
Jul 30, 2020 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/252 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/00 (20180501); A01H 5/02 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101); A01H 6/00 (20180101) |
Field of
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;PLT/252 |
Primary Examiner: Robinson; Keith O.
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct cultivar of crape myrtle plant named
Lagerstroemia `Lava Java` essentially as herein illustrated and
described.
Description
Botanical classification: Lagerstroemia (L.) hybrid.
Variety denomination: `Lava Java`.
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. was on Feb. 1, 2018. After that, on Mar. 12, 2018 the
claimed plant was sold by Walters Gardens, Inc., who obtained the
plant and all information relating thereto, from the inventor. No
plants of Lagerstroemia `Lava Java` 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
Lagerstroemia plant, commonly known as Crape Myrtle, and
hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name `Lava Java` or the
"new plant." `Lava Java` is grown primarily as an ornamental for
landscape use and for use as a potted plant, and is the result of
an ongoing breeding program to produce new and improved garden
worthy plants for the ornamental market. The new plant was the
result of open-pollinated seed collected by the inventor in fall of
2010 in a cultivated landscape in Raleigh, N.C., USA using `Whit
III` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,319 (sold under the trademark PINK
VELOUR.RTM.) as the seed or female parent. The male or pollen
parent is unknown, but may have been any one of a number of hybrids
or cultivars in the breeding area. The new plant was given the
breeder code H10-01-20.
Lagerstroemia `Lava Java` was initially asexually propagated by
stem cuttings at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich.,
USA in 2012. The resultant plants from successive generations have
demonstrated that the new plant has remained stable and true to
type in multiple and successive generations of asexual
propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the new cultivar `Lava Java` have not been observed under
all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary
somewhat with changes in light, temperature, soil and available
moisture and fertility without, however, any variance in
genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are
determined to be unique characteristics of `Lava Java`. Among the
characteristics in combination which distinguish `Lava Java` as a
new and distinct cultivar, unique from all other cultivars known to
the inventor are: 1. Dense, broadly-spread mounded growth habit; 2.
Glossy foliage emerges deep mahogany and matures to dark-green with
faint marginal wine blush; 3. Heavily-branched, striated,
reddish-brown colored stems; 4. Magenta-rose flowers in dense
panicles open on new growth to cover the shrub; 5. Resistance to
Cercospora leaf spot and Erisphe powdery mildew; 6. Ground hardy to
at least USDA hardiness zone 6.
The most similar cultivars known to the inventor include: `Spiced
Plum` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 29,478, `Cool Beans` U.S. Plant Pat.
29,940, `Sweet Macchiato` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 28,759, and the three
copending cultivars `Brew Ha Ha` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,206, `Dark
Roast` U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 16/350,861 and `Chai
Berry` U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 16/350,860. `Spiced
Plum` is slightly shorter and narrower in habit and blooms with
flowers that are more raspberry-purple. `Cool Beans` has a flower
color that is a different pink hue. `Sweet Macchiato` has a flower
color that is more lavender pink coloration. `Brew Ha Ha` is
slightly shorter in habit and the flower color is a different hue
of bubblegum pink. `Dark Roast` is shorter in habit, the leaves are
deeper reddish purple and the flowers are a different hue of bright
fuchsia pink. `Chai Berry` is slightly taller in habit and the
flowers are a different hue of rose-pink. The female parent `Whit
III` is much taller, the flowers are a pink coloration. Comparison
with the male parent is not possible since the male parent is
unknown.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The accompanying color photographs illustrate the flower and
foliage characteristics and the overall appearance of a
seven-year-old plant of `Lava Java`, growing in a full-sun trial
garden in Zeeland, Mich., showing the colors as true as it is
reasonably possible to obtain in color reproductions of this type.
Colors in the photographs may differ slightly from the color values
cited in the detailed botanical description which accurately
describe the colors of the new Lagerstroemia.
FIG. 1 shows a plant in a full-sun trial garden in late summer peak
flowering.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up for the flowers and buds.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The following color references are based on the 2015 edition of The
Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where common
dictionary terms are used. The following observations and size
descriptions are of approximately seven-year-old plants grown in a
loamy-sand, full-sun, open trial bed in Zeeland, Mich., USA with
supplemental water and fertilizer as needed. 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. Botanical classification:
Lagerstroemia (L.) hybrid; Parentage: female, or seed parent `Whit
III`; the male, or pollen parent is unknown; Propagation: Terminal
softwood stem cuttings; Time to initiate roots: About three weeks;
Growth rate: Moderate; finishing from a 65 mm liner in a 3.7 liter
container in about 10 to 14 weeks in the summer season; Plant
description: Deciduous, woody, narrow, compact flowering shrub;
about six mainly upright to outward primary stems; freely branched;
Root description: Fine, numerous, fibrous, well-branched; Plant
habit: Broadly-spreading compact mound; about 115.0 cm high from
the soil level to the top of the inflorescences; about 102.0 cm
wide with no pinching, pruning or plant growth regulators; Stems:
About sixteen; to about 80.0 cm long and about 20.0 mm diameter at
base; young stems cylindrical with four longitudinal carinae, along
line on either side of petioles; basal stems cylindrical with
slightly exfoliating bark; highly branched with about 18 to 23
alternate branches held at about 30 to 45 degree angle above
horizontal; branches to about 35.0 cm long and 5.0 mm diameter at
base; Stem color: Woody basal portion variable with over wintered
stems between RHS 177B and RHS 200A, basal new season stems
striated with nearest RHS 176A and RHS 164D; young developing stems
striated with nearest RHS 181C and nearest RHS 185A; Node: About 35
to 45 per main stem; internode length average about 1.5 cm in main
stems; Node color: Same as surrounding stem; Foliage description:
Sub-opposite to alternate; simple; ovate; margin ciliolate;
slightly coarsely sinuate; acute apex; aequilateral, rounded to
attenuate base; adaxial and abaxial glabrous and lustrous; to about
7.6 cm long and 3.4 cm wide, average about 5.5 cm long and 3.4 cm
wide; Abaxial leaf color: Young emerging adaxial nearest RHS 187A
with slight marginal blush of nearest RHS 187B, abaxial nearest RHS
146D; mature adaxial nearest RHS 139A, abaxial between RHS 137B and
RHS 146B; Veins: Pinnate, micro-puberulent adaxial and abaxial;
Vein color: Young emerging adaxial nearest RHS N186C, abaxial
between RHS 183C and RHS 187C; mature adaxial nearest RHS 183C with
midrib nearest RHS NN137C in distal portion, abaxial basal midrib
with distal midrib portion and secondary veins nearest RHS 160B
with blush of nearest RHS 184A; Petiole: Short, typically 2.0 mm
long and 2.0 mm wide; color adaxial center nearest RHS 146A and
margins nearest RHS N187A abaxial nearest RHS N187A; Inflorescence:
Panicle; terminal branched panicles up to about 400 flowers;
average about 275 flowers; up to about 35.0 cm long and about 25.0
cm across; beginning late-summer and continuing for up to nine
weeks; Buds: Globose; slightly carinate; with rounded to slightly
apiculate apex and rounded base; lustrous; glabrous; about 7.5 mm
long and about 8.0 mm diameter one day prior to opening;
longitudinal suture lines of medium prominence; Bud color: Exposed
petals nearest RHS 64A; calyx nearest RHS 183C with carinae nearest
RHS 187A; Flowers: Perfect; regular; actinomorphic; in terminal
panicle; individually about 2.8 cm across and about 20.0 mm long to
tip of exserted stigma, corolla to about 18.0 mm long; lasting
about is two days; Flower fragrance: Faintly sweet; Peduncle:
Cylindrical with four longitudinal carinae in proximal portion and
cylindrical in distal portion; about 5.0 mm diameter at base below
lowest flowering branch, to about 35.0 cm long and 18.0 cm across;
Peduncle color: Variable with position; proximal between RHS 177B
and RHS 200A, and distal portion striated with nearest RHS 181C and
nearest RHS 185A; Pedicel: Cylindrical; glabrous; lustrous; about
9.0 mm long and 1.0 mm diameter; Pedicel color: Nearest RHS 187A;
Calyx: Fused to form hypanthium; 9.0 mm long and 7.0 mm across;
Sepals: Fused in about the basal 3.0 mm; acute apex, entire margin;
glabrous and lustrous both adaxial and abaxial; about 7.0 mm long
and individually and about 3.0 mm wide at fusion point; Sepal
color: Adaxial basal portion nearest RHS 196D, middle portion
nearest RHS 187C, distal portion nearest RHS N148D; abaxial basal
nearest RHS 183C; Petals: Six; stalked; glabrous; blade ruffled or
crisped; margin crisped; blade with rounded apex and auriculate
base, to about 10.0 mm across and 10.0 mm long; claw base or stalk
adnate to calyx, to about 8.0 mm long and 0.7 mm diameter; overall
about 18.0 mm long; Petal color: Blade adaxial and abaxial nearest
RHS 60A; claw nearest RHS 53B; Androecium: Stamens.--Typically
about 42; six longer and about 36 shorter. Filaments.--Cylindrical;
shorter stamens to about 10.0 mm long and about 0.2 mm diameter,
curved to twisted; longer filaments about 18.0 mm long and about
0.3 mm diameter; color of shorter filaments nearest RHS 179C; color
longer filaments nearest RHS 60B. Anthers--Dorsifixed; flattened
ellipsoid; more developed on longer stamens to about 1.5 mm long
and 1.2 mm across, on shorter stamens about 1.0 mm long and about
0.7 mm across; color nearest RHS 13A. Pollen.--Abundant on longer
stamens; color nearest RHS 14A. Gynoecium: One; about 20.0 mm long;
Style.--Cylindrical; glabrous; about 18.0 mm long and 1.0 mm
diameter; color nearest RHS 53B. Stigma.--Globose; about 0.7 mm
diameter; color nearest RHS 59A. Ovary.--Superior; globose;
lustrous; about 2.0 mm tall and 2.5 mm diameter; color nearest RHS
150D. Fruit: Globose; dehiscent, loculicidal, penta-valved capsule;
about 9.0 mm across and 9.0 mm tall; immature color nearest RHS
145C, mature color nearest RES 202B with midribs nearest RHS 165A;
Seed: Typically 15 to 30 seeds per fruit; winged; to about 7.0 mm
long and 15 mm across and 1.0 mm thick at embryo; color variable,
nearest RHS 199B at embryo and RHS 161C in wing; Disease
resistance: Lagerstroemia `Lava Java` has shown resistance to
powdery mildew and black leaf spot, Erisphe and Cercospora fungi,
respectively. Other resistance beyond that typical for crape myrtle
has not been observed. The new plant's root system is capable of
withstanding cold temperatures typical of those found in USDA zone
6.
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