U.S. patent number PP33,003 [Application Number 17/007,914] was granted by the patent office on 2021-04-27 for gomphrena plant named `balgovarpur`.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Ball Horticultural Company. The grantee listed for this patent is Ball Horticultural Company. Invention is credited to Alan D. Blowers, Lynne Knosher.
United States Patent |
PP33,003 |
Knosher , et al. |
April 27, 2021 |
Gomphrena plant named `Balgovarpur`
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Gomphrena plant named
`Balgovarpur`, characterized by its red-purple colored
inflorescences, medium yellow-green colored variegated foliage, and
moderately vigorous, upright growth habit, is disclosed.
Inventors: |
Knosher; Lynne (St. Charles,
IL), Blowers; Alan D. (N/A) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Ball Horticultural Company |
West Chicago |
IL |
US |
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Assignee: |
Ball Horticultural Company
(West Chicago, IL)
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Appl.
No.: |
17/007,914 |
Filed: |
August 31, 2020 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/263.1 |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
6/02 (20180101); A01H 5/02 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/263.1 |
Primary Examiner: Para; Annette H
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Charles; Audrey
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A new and distinct cultivar of Gomphrena plant named
`Balgovarpur`, substantially as herein illustrated and described.
Description
Latin name of genus and species of plant claimed: Gomphrena
haageana.
Variety denomination: `Balgovarpur`.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Gomphrena plant botanically known as Gomphrena haageana and
hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name `Balgovarpur`.
The new Gomphrena cultivar is a chemical-induced sport of QIS
Carmine, not patented, characterized by its medium red-purple
colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately
vigorous, upright growth habit. The mutagenic treatment occurred
during September 2014. The new cultivar was discovered as a whole
plant and selected during March 2015 in a controlled environment in
Elburn, Ill.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal stem cuttings
since March 2015 in West Chicago, Ill. has demonstrated that the
new cultivar reproduces true to type with all of the
characteristics, as herein described, firmly fixed and retained
through successive generations of such asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following characteristics of the new cultivar have been
repeatedly observed and can be used to distinguish `Balgovarpur` as
a new and distinct cultivar of Gomphrena plant: 1. Red-purple
colored inflorescences; 2. Medium yellow-green colored variegated
foliage; and 3. Moderately vigorous, upright growth habit.
Plants of the new cultivar differ from plants of the parent
primarily in having medium yellow-green colored variegated
foliage.
Of the many commercially available Gomphrena cultivars, the most
similar in comparison to the new cultivar is Truffula Pink
`PAST0517E`, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,728. However, in comparison,
plants of the new cultivar differ from plants of `PAST0517E` in at
least the following characteristics: 1. Plants of the new cultivar
have medium yellow-green colored variegated foliage that is
different from the dark green-colored foliage of plants of
`PAST0517E; 2. Plants of the new cultivar have lighter
green-colored stems than plants of `PAST0517E; and 3. Plants of the
new cultivar have fewer flowers per inflorescence than plants of
`PAST0517E`.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS
The accompanying photographs show, as nearly true as it is
reasonably possible to make the same in color illustrations of this
type, typical flower and foliage characteristics of the new
cultivar. Colors in the photographs may differ slightly from the
color values cited in the detailed description, which accurately
describes the colors of `Balgovarpur`. The plants were
approximately four months old. The plants were grown in 4-inch pots
for approximately 12 weeks in a greenhouse in West Chicago, Ill.
Plants were given one pinch at transplant.
FIG. 1 illustrates a side view of the overall growth and flowering
habit of `Balgovarpur`.
FIG. 2 illustrates a close-up view of an individual inflorescence
of `Balgovarpur`.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The new cultivar has not been observed under all possible
environmental conditions to date. Accordingly, it is possible that
the phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in the environment,
such as temperature, light intensity, and day length, without,
however, any variance in genotype.
The chart used in the identification of colors described herein is
The R.H.S. Colour Chart of The Royal Horticultural Society, London,
England, 2015 edition, except where general color terms of ordinary
significance are used. The color values were determined in June
2020 under natural light conditions in Naperville, Ill.
The following descriptions and measurements describe approximately
4-month old plants produced from cuttings from stock plants and
grown in a poly-covered greenhouse under conditions comparable to
those used in commercial practice. The plants were grown in West
Chicago, Ill. in 4-inch pots for approximately 12 weeks utilizing a
soilless growth medium. Plants were given one pinch at transplant.
Temperatures ranged from an average high of 75.0.degree. F.
(23.9.degree. C.) to an average low of 70.0.degree. F.
(21.1.degree. C.), and supplemental lighting was provided daily for
five hours during short days. Measurements and numerical values
represent averages of typical plants. Botanical classification:
Gomphrena haageana `Balgovarpur`. Parentage: Parent.--QIS Carmine,
not patented. Propagation: Type cutting.--Terminal stem. Time to
initiate roots.--Approximately 12 to 14 days. Time to produce a
rooted cutting.--Approximately 5 to 6 weeks. Root
description.--Fibrous, fine. Rooting habit.--Freely branching,
moderate density. Plant description: Commercial crop
time.--Approximately 6 to 8 weeks from a rooted cutting to finish
in a 15 cm pot. Growth habit and general appearance.--Annual,
moderately vigorous, upright. Size.--Height from soil level to top
of plant plane: Approximately 33.0 cm. Width: Approximately 30.0
cm. Branching habit.--Freely branching, pinching enhances basal
branching. Quantity of lateral branches per plant: Approximately 9.
Branch.--Shape: Rounded, sometimes crooked. Strength: Strong.
Length: Approximately 7.0 cm to 22.0 cm. Diameter: Approximately
3.0 mm to 4.0 mm. Length of central internode: Approximately 4.5 cm
to 7.0 cm. Texture: Densely pubescent with long, appressed hairs.
Color of young stem: 145B lightly tinted with 187C. Color of mature
stem: 145A lightly tinted with 187C. Foliage description: General
description.--Quantity of leaves per lateral branch: Approximately
6 to 8. Fragrance: None detected. Form: Simple. Arrangement:
Opposite. Leaves.--Aspect: Perpendicular to stem. Shape:
Lanceolate, slightly keeled. Margin: Entire. Apex: Apiculate. Base:
Sessile. Venation pattern: Pinnate. Length of mature leaf:
Approximately 8.5 cm. Width of mature leaf: Approximately 1.5 cm.
Texture of upper surface: Moderately pubescent. Texture of lower
surface: Densely pubescent. Color of upper surface of young and
mature foliage: 137A with a central variegation pattern of N144D,
venation color indistinguishable from laminae. Color of lower
surface of young and mature foliage: Closest to 147B with a central
variegation pattern of closest to but lighter than 146D, venation
color indistinguishable from laminae. Flowering description:
Flowering habit.--`Balgovarpur` is freely flowering under outdoor
growing conditions with substantially continuous blooming from
spring through autumn. Lastingness of individual inflorescence on
the plant.--Approximately 30 days. Inflorescence description:
General description.--Type: Clover-like, papery-like heads,
persistent. Quantity per plant: Approximately 2. Fragrance: None
detected. Aspect: Facing upward or outward. Height: Approximately
1.8 cm. Width: Approximately 1.7 cm. Quantity of fully open flowers
per inflorescence: Approximately 40. Peduncle.--Strength: Strong,
slightly flexible. Shape: Round. Aspect: Erect to acute angle to
stem, often crooked. Length: Approximately 9.0 cm to 12.0 cm.
Diameter: Approximately 3.0 mm. Texture: Densely pubescent with
long, appressed hairs. Color: 145B often lightly tinted with 187C.
Flower description: General description.--Type: Tubular, sessile
with a five-parted perianth in a single whorl subtended by two
bracts. Bud just before opening.--Shape: Ovoid. Length:
Approximately 7.0 mm. Diameter: Approximately 2.0 mm. Color: NN155D
with NN78A. Perianth segments.--Quantity: 5. Shape: Lanceolate.
Margin: Entire. Apex: Acute. Base: Truncate. Length: Approximately
8.0 mm. Width: Approximately 1.0 mm. Texture: Glabrous with
sericeous base, translucent, papery-like. Color of inner surface:
NN155D with N78C at tip. Color of outer surface: NN78A,
transitioning with age to N78B and N78A, NN155D at base.
Bracts.--Quantity per flower: 2 per flower. Shape: Ovate, keeled.
Length: Approximately 1.0 cm. Width: Approximately 4.0 mm. Texture
of upper and lower surfaces: Glabrous, translucent, papery-like.
Color of upper and lower surfaces: NN155D with tip of NN78A, tip
transitions with age to N78B to N78A. Reproductive
organs.--Androecium: Stamen quantity and arrangement: Filaments
united into a cylindrical tube with five acute tips, tube encases
the gynoecium. Filament length: Approximately 9.0 mm. Filament tube
width: Approximately 1.0 mm. Color of outer and inner surfaces of
filament tube: NN155D with tips of 14B and base of 145D. Anther
shape: Oblong, dorsifixed to filament tip. Anther length:
Approximately 1.5 mm. Anther color: 14D. Pollen amount: Sparse.
Pollen color: 14D. Gynoecium: Pistil quantity: 1 per flower. Pistil
length: Approximately 3.0 mm. Stigma shape: Bi-parted. Stigma
length: Approximately 1.5 mm. Stigma color: 145D, translucent.
Style length: Less than 1.0 mm. Style color: 146D. Ovary diameter:
Approximately 1.0 mm. Ovary color: 146D. Seed and fruit production:
Neither seed nor fruit production has been observed. Disease and
pest resistance: Resistance to pathogens and pests common to
Gomphrena has not been observed.
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