U.S. patent number PP33,265 [Application Number 16/974,296] was granted by the patent office on 2021-07-13 for hosta plant named `voices in the wind`.
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 |
PP33,265 |
Hansen |
July 13, 2021 |
Hosta plant named `Voices in the Wind`
Abstract
A new and distinct Hosta plant named `Voices in the Wind` of
medium-sized, arching, long, lanceolate, bluish-green leaves having
wavy creamy-yellow margins with numerous feathering intermediate
colors and a narrowly acute curling apex. The flowers are pale
lavender with darker lavender veins appearing in mid-July. Prior to
flower bud opening, the floral bracts produce a broad, short, light
lavender, water-lily effect of compact lanceolate bracts. `Voices
in the Wind` is attractive and is useful in the landscape, as a
specimen or en masse or as a container plant.
Inventors: |
Hansen; Hans A (Zeeland,
MI) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Hansen; Hans A |
Zeeland |
MI |
US |
|
|
Assignee: |
Walters Gardens, Inc. (Zeeland,
MI)
|
Appl.
No.: |
16/974,296 |
Filed: |
December 18, 2020 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/353 |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/12 (20180101); A01H 6/12 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/353 |
Other References
http://www.plantsgalore.com/hostas/cultivars/V/Hosta_Voices_in_the_Wind.ht-
m Retrieved from the Internet on Mar. 30, 2021. (3 pages total).
cited by examiner.
|
Primary Examiner: McCormick Ewoldt; Susan
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct Hosta plant cultivar named Hosta `Voices in
the Wind` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical classification: Hosta hybrid (Tratt.).
Variety denomination: `Voices in the Wind`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(B)(6)
Hosta `Voices in the Wind` was first introduced by the inventor as
a non-enabling description through The American Hosta Society which
is the International Cultivar Registration Authority registration
in early 2020. No plants of Hosta `Voices in the Wind` 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 the
filing date of this application.
BACKGROUND AND ORIGIN OF THE PLANT
The present invention relates to a new and distinct Hosta plant,
Hosta `Voices in the Wind` hereinafter also referred to as the new
plant or by the cultivar name, `Voices in the Wind`. Hosta `Voices
in the Wind` was a cross by the inventor between two non-patented,
unreleased, proprietary hybrids on Jul. 22, 2013 at a wholesale
perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich., USA. The female parent was
identified as a proprietary, unreleased sport known only as
"streaked `Arctic Blast`" (not patented) and the male parent was
the proprietary, unreleased, unnamed hybrid known only as `H10-162`
(not patented). The new plant was assigned the breeder code
13-332-1 and passed the initial evaluation in the summer of 2014.
It has been asexually propagated by division at the same nursery
since 2017 and also by careful shoot tip plant tissue culture with
the resultant asexually propagated plants having retained all the
same traits as the original plant. Hosta `Voices in the Wind` is
stable and reproduces true to type in successive generations of
asexual reproduction.
There are nearly 7,000 registered and established Hosta cultivars
with The American Hosta Society, which is the International
Cultivar Registration Authority for the genus Hosta. Several of
these have green leaf blades with variegated margins. The most
similar Hosta cultivars known to the applicant are `Drop-dead
Gorgeous` U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 16/974,101, `Joy
Ride` (not patented), `Hope Springs Eternal` copending U.S. Plant
patent application Ser. No. 16/974,300, `Landslide` (not patented),
`Chantilly Lace` (not patented), `Greybeard` (not patented), `Tears
in Heaven` copending U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No.
16/974,298 and `Neptune` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 19,674.
`Drop-dead Gorgeous` has similar wavy margins, but the center is
not as glaucous bluish-green and the variegation is more yellowish.
`Joy Ride` has a flatter habit and does not have variegated
foliage, the leaf blades are more pointed and the margin is not as
wavy. `Hope Springs Eternal` is similar in size but flatter and
less upright in habit with a more cordate foliage and less pointed
and curled leaf tip. `Landslide` has a flatter habit and the margin
variegation is not as wide nor as wavy as the new plant. `Chantilly
Lace` has a smaller habit and foliage and the leaves are not
elongated nor as wavy. `Greybeard` has slightly larger habit and
leaf size, but the leaves are more cordate, the margin is thinner
and less wavy, and the center is less glaucous bluish-green. `Tears
in Heaven` has solid glaucous foliage without variegation that is
more cupped. `Neptune` has solid blue-green leaf without
variegation and the leaves are broader and the margin is not as
wavy.
The female parent has leaves with random streaked variegation in
the margin and center without ruffled leaf margins but the foliage
is not as elongated or as glaucous. The male parent has larger
leaves and slightly larger habit with intensely glaucous leaves
that are not variegated.
Other Hosta cultivars may have ovate leaf blades with yellow
variegated margins and blue-green centers, thick leaf substance or
other individual traits similar to `Voices in the Wind` but the new
plant differs from the above listed cultivars and all other Hostas
known to the applicant, by the combination of the following traits.
1. Leaves are medium-sized, long, lanceolate, with broadly acute
apices and cordate base; 2. Arching leaves have an intensely-wavy
creamy-yellow margin and a narrowly acute curling apex; 3. Leaf
center is bluish-green with numerous featherings of intermediate
colors between the margin and center; 4. Flowers are pale lavender
beginning in mid-July; 5. Floral bracts form broad, short,
light-lavender, water-lily effect well before flowers buds open; 6.
Medium mounded habit and useful in the garden as edging or front
border, in containers, as a specimen or en masse.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The photograph of the new plant demonstrates the overall appearance
of the plant, including the unique traits. 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.
The drawings show a six-year-old `Voices in the Wind` plant in a
trial garden at a nursery in Zeeland, Mich. with supplement
fertilizer and water as needed.
FIG. 1 shows the landscape foliage habit of a new plant just before
flowering.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flowers and buds.
FIG. 3 shows a close-up of the foliage.
FIG. 4 shows a close-up of the inside of a single flower.
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, Hosta
`Voices in the Wind`, has not been observed under all possible
environments. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that certain
characteristics will vary with plants that are more mature or
plants that are less mature. 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 six-year-old plant in a shaded trial garden in Zeeland, Mich.
with supplemental water and fertilizer. Botanical classification:
Hosta x hybrid; Parentage: Female or seed parent the proprietary
"streaked `Arctic Blast`"; male or pollen parent `H10-162`
comprising of `Neptune`, `Winfield Blue` (not patented) and `Joy
Ride` (not patented); Propagation: Garden division and sterile
shoot tip plant tissue culture; Time to initiate roots from tissue
culture: About two to three weeks; Growth rate: Moderately
vigorous; Crop time: About three months to four months to finish
during the spring in a one-liter container from rooted tissue
culture plantlet; Rooting habit: Fleshy, lightly branching; Root
color: Nearest RHS NN155C when actively growing; Plant shape and
habit: Hardy herbaceous perennial with basal rosette of leaves
emerging from rhizomes producing a large mound of arching petioles
and leaves and erect scapes flowering above foliage; Plant size:
Foliage height to about 43.2 cm above soil line to the top of the
leaves, to about 73.7 cm tall to the top of the flowers and to
about 116.8 cm wide at the widest point at the soil line; Foliage
description: Lanceolate; narrowly-acute curving apex, cordate base;
margin entire, heavily sinuate; glabrous and matte both adaxial and
abaxial; flexible but stiff; smooth, not bullate; shallowly
impressed adaxial veins and costate abaxial veins; Leaf blade size:
To about 30.5 cm long and about 15.2 cm wide; average about 28.5 cm
long and 14.0 cm wide; margin to about 3.8 cm wide; Leaf blade
color: Early season and expanding adaxial margin between RHS 150C
and RHS 150D. abaxial margin nearest between HRS 145C and RHS 150D,
adaxial center nearest RHS 137A and abaxial center nearest RHS
137C, adaxial intermediate colors comprising RHS 138B, RHS 147C and
between RHS 145C and RHS 146D, abaxial intermediate colors
comprising RHA 146C and between RHS N138D and RHS 194C; mid-season
and mature adaxial margins nearest RHS 150D, abaxial margin nearest
RHS 150D, adaxial center RHS 137A, abaxial center nearest RHS
N138C, adaxial intermediate colors comprising RHS 148D, RHS 145C,
between RHS 148D and RHS N138D and between RHS145D and RHS 148D,
abaxial intermediate colors comprising RHS 147C, RHS 146D and
between RHS 145C and RHS 146D; Petiole: Glabrous and slightly
glaucous both adaxial and abaxial; deeply concavo-convex proximally
and more shallowly concavo-convex distally; stiff; to 27.5 cm long
and 12.0 mm wide at base and about 8.0 mm deep near base, average
about 26.0 cm long and 10.0 mm wide; Petiole color: Adaxial nearest
RHS 138A, margins about 1.0 mm wide nearest RHS 150D; abaxial
center nearest RHS 138B, margins about 1.0 mm wide nearest RHS
150D; Veins: Ten to twelve pairs and midrib; parallel; lightly
impressed adaxial; costate and smooth abaxial; Veins color: Young
and mature adaxial nearest RHS 157A, abaxial between RHS 147C and
RHS 147B; Flower description: Buds one to two days prior to
opening: Clavate with rounded apex and narrow tube base; about 45.0
mm long and 10.0 mm in diameter at widest with base narrowing in
basal 14.0 mm to about 3.5 mm diameter; Bud color: Bulb between RHS
85D and RHS NN155D and tube nearest RHS 85D; Flowers: Perfect;
flared campanulate; outwardly; to 50.0 mm long to exserted stigma;
corolla fused in basal 27.0 mm, free in the distal 20.0 mm, about
46.0 mm long and 36.0 mm wide at tepal apices, decreasing distally;
corolla tube portion 15.0 mm long and 3.5 mm diameter; persists for
a normal period, usually about one day on plant; flowers tightly
arranged on scape; Flowering period: Scapes remain effective with
flowers beginning mid-July for about three and a half weeks; with
about 40 flowers per scape; mostly secund; Fragrance: No detectable
fragrance; Tepal: Two nearly identical sets of three, glabrous;
entire margins; Inner set.--About 47.0 mm long and 10.0 mm wide
slightly above fusion point; fused in basal 27.0 mm; clavate with
broadly acute apex; margin entire with irregular blotchy 1.0 mm
wide transparent border; basal 20.0 mm fused into tube. Inner set
color.--Vitreous in blotchy irregular pattern along distal margin;
adaxial 2.5 mm wide center from base (including corolla tube) to
apex between RHS 85C and RHS 85D and margin nearest RHS NN155D,
abaxial center lighter than RHS 85D, corolla tube portion nearest
RHS 85C and distal margins nearest RHS NN155D. Outer set.--About
47.0 mm long and 9.0 mm wide slightly above fusion point; fused in
basal 27.0 mm; clavate with broadly acute apex; entire margin
without transparent border; base fused into tube. Outer set
color.--Adaxial center distally between RHS 85D and RHS NN155D with
corolla tube portion nearest RHS 85C and 1.0 mm margin nearest RHS
NN155D with center veins nearest RHS 85C; abaxial corolla tube
nearest RHS 85D and distally between RHS 85D and RHS NN155D fading
toward margin to nearest RHS NN155D in outer 2.0 mm without obvious
veins. Gynoecium: Single; 54.0 mm long; superior;
Style.--Cylindrical; about 46.0 mm long, 1.0 mm diameter; curved
upward 90 degrees in distal 5.0 mm; color nearest RHS 145D
proximally and nearest RHS 157D distally. Stigma.--Puberulent;
tri-lobed; about 1.2 mm across and 1.0 mm tall; color nearest RHS
157C. Ovary.--Ellipsoidal; superior; apex rounded; base rounded to
truncate; longitudinally sulcate; to about 7.0 mm long and 2.5 mm
diameter in middle; color nearest RHS 145A. Androecium: Six;
Filaments.--Six, approximately 50.0 mm long and 1.0 mm in diameter;
curved upward to nearly 90 degrees in the distal 5.0 mm; color
distally nearest RHS 155C, base nearest RHS 145D.
Anthers.--Ellipsoidal with rounded ends; dorsifixed, longitudinally
dehiscent; about 4.5 mm long and 1.5 mm wide; color prior to
dehiscing nearest RHS N187 adaxial and abaxial. Pollen.--Spherical;
less than 0.1 mm long; color nearest RHS 13B. Flower fragrance:
None observed; Peduncle: Cylindrical; usually one per mature
division; about 4 per plant; glabrous, slightly glaucous; erect; to
about 73.7 cm tall, and about 9.0 mm in diameter at base, average
about 68.0 cm tall and 8.0 mm diameter at base; Inflorescence:
Flowering portion about 25.0 cm long and 7.0 cm wide; with pale
lavender flowers and large floral bracts subtending each flower;
Peduncle color: Proximal portion below leaves nearest RHS 138B and
distal portion nearest RHS 138A; Pedicel: Variable in length;
terete; glabrous; slightly lustrous; about 11.0 mm to 14.0 mm long
and 2.0 mm diameter; outwardly to slightly drooping; Pedicel color:
Variable; nearest RHS 138B; Floral bracts: Each flower normally
subtended by a single bract; lanceolate to linear; narrowly acute
apex and truncate clasping base; entire margin; glabrous and
glaucous lustrous abaxial and adaxial; to about 9.0 cm long 1.1 cm
wide, decreasing distally; prior to flower development forming
compact attractive cluster about 12 cm across; persisting while
flowers open; Bract color: Distal adaxial and abaxial between RHS
146D and RHS 145B with strong longitudinal blushing of RHS 79D,
with narrow margins nearest RHS NN155B; Fruit: Tri-valved dehiscent
capsule; ellipsoidal to cylindrical with apex apiculate to acute
and attenuate base; about 25.0 mm long and 8.0 mm diameter; Fruit
color: Nearest RHS 138B as maturing and RHS 161D when ripe; Seed:
Typically about 15 per capsule; endospermic; flattened-ellipsoidal
wing surrounding embryo at one end of ellipse; to about 7.0 mm
long, 3.0 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick at embryo; Seed color: Nearest
RHS 202A; Disease resistance: The thick glaucous leaves provide
some resistance to slug feeding. Other resistance to pests
(including: Odocoileus virginianus and Oryctotagus cuniculus) and
diseases common to Hostas is equal that typical of other cultivars.
Growth conditions: The plant grows best and shows best coloration
with plenty of moisture, adequate drainage and light shade, but is
able to tolerate some drought when mature. Hardiness at least from
USDA zone 3 through 8, and other disease resistance is typical of
that of other Hostas.
* * * * *
References