U.S. patent number PP33,277 [Application Number 16/974,299] was granted by the patent office on 2021-07-20 for hosta plant named `party streamers`.
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 |
PP33,277 |
Hansen |
July 20, 2021 |
Hosta plant named `Party Streamers`
Abstract
A new and distinct Hosta plant named `Party Streamers` with
medium, rounded-mound habit of arching chartreuse foliage. Leaves
are long and narrow with wavy margins. Flowering begins in late
July through late August with tepals opening wide to show strong
violet coloration with darker veins. Seed pods take on purplish-red
coloration when developing in high light conditions. The new plant
is attractive for landscaping in the garden as a specimen, in mass
and as a container.
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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Appl.
No.: |
16/974,299 |
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/P/Hosta_Party_Streamers.htm
(Retrieved from Internet on Apr. 1, 2021--3 pages total). cited by
examiner.
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Primary Examiner: McCormick Ewoldt; Susan
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct ornamental plant cultivar named Hosta `Party
Streamers` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Latin name and variety denomination of the plant:
Botanical classification: Hosta hybrid.
Variety denomination: `Party Streamers`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(B)(6)
Hosta `Party Streamers` was first introduced by the inventor as a
non-enabling description through the International Cultivar
Registration Authority registration in early 2020. No plants of
Hosta `Party Streamers` 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 `Party Streamers` hereinafter also referred to as the new
plant or just the cultivar name, `Party Streamers`. Hosta `Party
Streamers` was single seedling selection from a cross on Aug. 23,
2013 by the inventor at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland,
Mich., USA between `Atom Smasher` (not patented) as the female
parent and the non-patented, unreleased, proprietary hybrid known
only as `11-463-02` (not patented) as the male parent. The new
plant was assigned the breeder code 13-443-4 and passed the initial
evaluation in the summer of 2016. The new plant has been asexually
propagated by division at the same nursery in Zeeland, Mich., USA
since 2017 and also by careful plant shoot-tip tissue culture with
the resultant asexually propagated plants having retained all the
same traits as the original plant.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PLANT
There are over 7,000 registered and unregistered Hosta cultivars
recognized by The American Hosta Society, which is the
International Cultivar Registration Authority for the genus Hosta.
The nearest known comparison cultivars are the female parent, `Atom
Smasher`, `Bitsy Gold` (not patented), `Cricket` (not patented),
`Curly Fries` (not patented), `Munchkin Fire` (not patented),
`Pineapple Juice` (not patented), `Surfer Girl` (not patented) and
`Wiggles and Squiggles` (not patented).
All of the above plants have a lanceolate leaves with undulate
margins. `Atom Smasher` is smaller in height, the foliage is less
arching, and the flowers are not as purple. `Bitsy Gold` is smaller
in habit, with smaller foliage that is more yellowish and lacks the
undulation. `Cricket` is about half the size in habit with smaller
foliage that has a cordate base, and the proportion of blade width
to length is greater. `Curly Fries` has a larger habit with
smaller, longer and narrow leaves with less reddish stippling in
the petiole and the undulation decreases with maturity. `Munchkin
Fire` has a smaller habit with smaller shorter leaves that are more
yellowish. `Pineapple Juice` has a larger habit, but the growth
rate is slower, the foliage is lighter yellow, and the petiole has
much less reddish stippling. `Surfer Girl` has smaller habit with
shorter foliage that has a cordate base and the flowers are paler
purple. `Wiggles and Squiggles` has a larger habit, the foliage is
lighter yellow with less reddish stippling in the petiole and
flower scape.
The male parent was less yellowish in foliage and had a larger
habit.
Other Hosta cultivars have similar colored foliage, but `Party
Streamers` is distinct from the above listed Hostas and all other
cultivars known to the discoverer by the following combined traits:
1. Medium-sized, round-mounded plant habit with arching chartreuse
foliage; 2. Leaves are long and narrow with wavy margins; 3.
Medium-sized flowers droop downwardly from erect scapes well above
the foliage; 4. Tepals are strong violet with darker veins and
vitreous or transparent margins. 5. Seed pods display a
purplish-red while developing.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the overall appearance
of the new 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.
FIG. 1 shows the habit of a five-year-old plant in mid-season.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the foliage.
FIG. 3 shows a close-up of a flower and buds.
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 `Party
Streamers`, 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 seven-year
old plant in a partially shaded trial garden in Zeeland, Mich. with
supplemental water and fertilizer. Botanical classification: Hosta
hybrid; Parentage: `Atom Smasher` as the female parent, and
`11-463-2` as the male parent which has in its background `Curly
Fries` (not patented) and `Mason Yellow` (not patented);
Propagation: Garden division and sterile shoot-tip tissue culture;
Time to initiate roots from tissue culture: About two to three
weeks; Growth rate: Rapid; Crop time: About 10 to 12 weeks to
finish during the summer in a one-liter container from rooted
tissue culture plantlet; Rooting habit: Normal, fleshy, lightly
branching; color between RHS NN155A and RHS NN155B; Plant shape and
habit: Hardy herbaceous perennial with basal rosettes of leaves
emerging from rhizomes producing a large, symmetrical,
rounded-mound of leaves; about 28 divisions per plant; divisions to
about 6.0 mm diameter at soil level; Plant size: Foliage height
about 30.5 cm above soil line to the top of the leaves and about
78.7 cm wide at the widest point about 20 cm at soil line; Foliage
description: Lanceolate to linear; narrowly acute apex; attenuate
base; entire undulate margin; glabrous and matte adaxial, glabrous
and lustrous abaxial; blades mostly flat in center with margin
undulate; flexible; not variegated; Leaf blade size: To about 15.2
cm long, 2.5 cm wide at base; average about 13.0 cm long and 1.8 cm
wide; Leaf blade color: Early season and expanding adaxial nearest
RHS N144D, early season and expanding abaxial nearest RHS N144D;
mid-season and later summer adaxial nearest RHS N144D in higher
sunlight exposure and nearest RHS 144A in lower sunlight or more
shaded exposure; mid-season and later abaxial between RHS 144A in
lower sunlight exposure and RHS N144D in higher sunlight exposure;
Petiole: Entire, glabrous, moderately concavo-convex; flexible;
slightly arching from base of plant to leaf base; to about 11.0 cm
long and 3.0 mm wide at base and 3 mm deep; Petiole color: Young
early season adaxial and abaxial between RHS 150B and RHS 150C with
proximal one-third heavily maculate with nearest RHS N79C, mature
adaxial nearest RHS 146B maculate with nearest RHS 187C, mature
abaxial nearest RHS 146C heavily maculate in proximal
three-quarters with nearest RHS 187DD; Veins: Parallel, lightly
impressed adaxial, moderately costate and smooth abaxial; about 5
to 6 pairs and one main center vein; Veins color: Adaxial and
abaxial same as surrounding tissue with light exposure; Flower
description: Perfect; single; actinomorphic; funnelform, flared
campanulate; slightly drooping; persist for normal period, usually
one day on plant or as cut flower; Flower period: Scapes remain
effective with flowering beginning late July through late August in
Michigan; Inflorescence: Strongly secund; flowering in distal 18.0
cm and about 6.0 cm wide; with up to 14 flowers per inflorescence;
Flower size: About 51.0 mm long to exserted style; corolla to about
45.0 mm long and flared to about 45.0 mm across; corolla tube to
about 18.0 mm long and 3.0 mm diameter toward base; Fragrance: none
detected; Scape bracts: Typically 4, rarely 5 per scape below
flowers; lanceolate; narrowly acute apex, clasping truncate base,
entire margin; to about 30.0 mm long and 8.5 mm across near middle,
decreasing distally; Scape bract color: Adaxial longitudinal center
nearest RHS 146D in basal three-quarters, distal one-quarter and
margins nearest RHS 150D; abaxial basal two-thirds nearest RHS 146D
and distal one-third nearest RHS 150D, with basal 3.0 mm heavily
spotted with nearest RHS 187C; Floral bracts: Subtending individual
flowers; lanceolate; narrowly acute apex, truncate clasping base,
margin entire; glabrous adaxial and abaxial; persistent; to about
20.0 mm long and 7.5 mm across, decreasing in size distally; Bract
color: Adaxial margin nearest RHS 150D, center nearest RHS 145A;
abaxial margin RHS 150D, center between RHS 145A and RHS 146D, with
adaxial and abaxial veins of nearest RHS 187B; Tepals: Two sets of
three; lanceolate with acute apex and fused base; Inner set.--47.0
mm long and 8.0 mm across slightly above fusion; fused in basal
26.5 mm and free in distal 22.0 mm; vitreous along 1.0 mm wide
distal margin. Inner set color.--Adaxial including corolla tube
nearest RHS 86D with veins nearest RHS 86A, proximal margins before
fusion nearest RHS 84D, fused margins nearest RHS NN155D; abaxial
including corolla tube nearest RHS N87D with veins between RHS 86A
and RHS 86B, margins between RHS 84D distally, and proximally
nearest RHS 84D. Outer tepal.--47.0 mm long and 8.0 mm across
slightly above fusion; fused in basal 26.5 mm and free in distal
22.0 mm; not vitreous along margin. Outer tepal color.--Adaxial
including corolla tube nearest RHS 86D with veins nearest RHS 86A,
proximal margins before fusion nearest RHS 84D, fused margins
nearest RHS NN155D; abaxial including corolla tube nearest RHS N87D
with veins between RHS 86A and RHS 86B, margins. Gynoecium: single;
tri-carpelled; 51.0 mm long; Style.--Single; cylindrical; arcuate
upward about 90.degree. in distal 10 mm; about 46.0 mm long and 1.0
mm diameter; color nearest RHS 145D distally and nearest RHS 145C
proximally. Stigma.--Tri-lobed, micro-puberulent; about 1.0 mm
across and 1.0 mm tall; color nearest RHS 157C. Ovary.--Superior;
ellipsoidal; rounded apex and truncate base; shallowly
longitudinally sulcate; about 4.0 mm long and 2.2 mm diameter;
color between RHS 146D and RHS 145A. Androecium: Six;
Filaments.--Cylindrical; glabrous; arcuate upward about 90.degree.
in distal 5.0 mm portion; about 40.0 mm long and 0.5 mm diameter;
color distally nearest RHS NN155D, proximally nearest RHS 155B.
Anthers.--Oblong; dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscent; about 4.0
mm long and 1.5 mm across and 1.5 mm thick; color adaxial variable
nearest RHS 166A near center and between RHS 18A and RHS 18B
outside, abaxial nearest RHS 18B. Pollen.--Smaller than 0.1 mm
diameter; color nearest RHS 17A. Flower bud: Oblong clavate; with
acute apex and fused tubular base; about 45.0 mm long in total and
12.0 mm wide in bulb portion, tube about 14.0 mm long and 3.0 mm
diameter; Flower bud color: Between RHS 85C and N87D with veins
nearest RHS 83A; Pedicel: Cylindrical, glabrous, lustrous; arcuate
upwardly and outwardly; to about 9.0 mm long and 1.2 mm diameter;
Pedicel color: Nearest RHS 155A with nearly solid speculate nearest
RHS 187C; Peduncle: Cylindrical; usually one per mature division
and 28 per plant; slightly lustrous; glabrous; flexible; nearly
upwardly with slight outwardly angle; to about 79.0 cm long and
about 3.0 mm diameter; Peduncle color: When flowering basal 3.0 cm
nearly solidly maculate with nearest RHS 187C, middle one-half
nearest RHS 146D and moderately maculate nearest RHS 187C, distal
portion nearest RHS N144A and maculate nearly solidly with nearest
RHS 187C; Fruit: Tri-valved dehiscent capsule; ellipsoidal to
cylindrical with apiculate apex and truncate base; about 22.0 mm
long and 5.0 mm diameter; lustrous as maturing; Fruit color: As
maturing nearest RHS 146C to solid RHS N186C with high light
exposure; maturing to nearest RHS 164C; Seed: Typically about 27
per capsule; endospermic; flattened-ellipsoidal wing surrounding
embryo at one end of ellipse; to about 9.0 mm long, 3.5 mm wide and
1.0 mm thick at embryo; Seed color: nearest RHS 202A; Disease
tolerance and resistance: The new plant has not shown any
resistance to pests and diseases common to Hostas; 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 9, and other disease resistance is typical of that
of other Hostas.
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