U.S. patent number PP33,309 [Application Number 17/300,046] was granted by the patent office on 2021-08-03 for hibiscus plant named `spinderella`.
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 |
PP33,309 |
Hansen |
August 3, 2021 |
Hibiscus plant named `Spinderella`
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous,
perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named `Spinderella` comprising a
compact, dense, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal
stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant
from late July to frost. Flowers have petals that are
broadly-overlapping, with deeply impressed veins of white radiating
through the center that intensifies to a medium pink on the leading
edge. The foliage is simple and ovate, with a crenulate margin and
deep-green with greyed-purple blotches.
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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Family
ID: |
77063148 |
Appl.
No.: |
17/300,046 |
Filed: |
February 23, 2021 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/257 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/608 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101); A01H 6/60 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/257 |
Primary Examiner: Robinson; Keith O.
Claims
I claim:
1. A new cultivar of hardy herbaceous perennial Hibiscus hybrid
plant named `Spinderella` as herein illustrated and described.
Description
Botanical classification: Hibiscus hybrid (L.).
Variety denomination: `Spinderella`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)
The first non-enabling disclosures were a brief description and
photograph of the new plant on Dec. 1, 2019 on the website operated
by Walters Gardens, Inc. followed by a listing in the "Walters
Gardens 2020-2021 Catalog" that was first distributed on May 20,
2020. The first disclosure, in the form of a sale, was made by
Walters Gardens, Inc. on Apr. 13, 2020. Walters Gardens, Inc.
obtained the new plant and all information relating thereto, from
the inventor. No plants of Hibiscus `Spinderella` have been sold,
in this country or anywhere in the world, by any name, nor has any
disclosure of the new plant been made more than one year prior the
filing date of this application, and such sale or disclosure within
one year was either derived directly or indirectly from the
inventor.
BACKGROUND AND ORIGIN OF THE PLANT
The present invention relates to the new and distinct hardy,
herbaceous, Hibiscus plant, Hibiscus `Spinderella` hybridized under
direction of the inventor Aug. 10, 2015 at a wholesale perennial
nursery in Zeeland, Mich. The new plant is a cross between the
unreleased, proprietary hybrid known as 12-07-1 (not patented)
times `Vintage Wine` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 27,839. Into the trial
process the new plant was assigned the breeder code labeled
15-66-2. The parent has a complex mixture of species in them,
comprising the species: moscheutos and coccineus.
Hibiscus `Spinderella` was first asexually propagated in late
summer of 2017 by sterile shoot-tip tissue culture and later by
shoot tip cuttings at the same nursery in Zeeland, Mich. The
resultant asexually propagated plants have been found to be stable
and true to type in successive generations of asexual
reproduction.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PLANT
Hibiscus `Spinderella` differs from its parents as well as all
other hardy herbaceous Hibiscus known to the applicant in many
traits. The most similar Hibiscus cultivars known to the applicant
are: `Tie Dye` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 24,078, `Starry Starry Night`
U.S. Plant Pat. No. 27,901, `Cherry Choco Latte` U.S. Plant Pat.
No. 30,738 and `Turn of the Century` (not patented).
`Tie Dye` has a taller, broader more open habit, the flower is
flatter and the leaves are heterophyllous with many being tri-lobed
and penta-lobed. `Starry Starry Night` has a larger habit with
darker greyed-purple, smaller, tri-lobed, the flower petals are
less imbricate with a larger white portion and reddish pink
veining. `Cherry Choco Latte` has slightly shorter habit, more
purplish-mahogany tinted foliage, and flowers with deep magenta
veins on a near white background, petals with leading edges folded
under. `Turn of the Century` has a taller and more open habit;
tri-lobed to penta-lobed lighter green foliage; and smaller, less
rounded flowers; petals are less imbricate with thinner substance,
and a center eye that is more orangish-red and less dark red, petal
veins are closer together and pinkish colored, and the pollen is
yellowish-grey.
The female parent plant is less compact in habit and the foliage
was much darker greyed-purple. `Vintage Wine` has a taller and more
open habit with dark scarlet-red flowers and the foliage is
broader.
Hibiscus `Spinderella` is a unique hardy herbaceous Hibiscus with
the following combined traits: 1. Winter-hardy perennial with
compact, dense, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal
stems; 2. Many rotate flowers with a dark red eye, medium pink
intensified distally and toward the leading petal edge and white
near the eye and veins radiating toward the edges; 3. Petals are
overlapping and impressed at veins giving extra strength and
resistance to wind damage; 4. Flowers produced over a long period
from late July to frost; 5. Foliage is ovate and simple with a
crenulate margin and deep-green with greyed-purple color in
blotches.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the overall appearance
of the plant, including the unique traits. The colors are as
accurate as reasonably possible with color reproductions. Ambient
light spectrum, source and direction may cause the appearance of
minor variation in color. The plants in the photographs are from a
four-year-old plant in an outdoor trial garden in Zeeland,
Mich.
FIG. 1 shows the landscape habit of the new plant in full
flower.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flower.
FIG. 3 shows a comparison of the flower of `Spinderella` on the
left and `Turn of the Century` on the right.
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, Hibiscus
`Spinderella`, 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
four-year-old plants in the loamy-sand, open-field full-sun trials
of a nursery in Zeeland, Mich. with supplemental fertilizer and
water as needed. The plants are of natural habit and were not
treated with plant growth regulators, nor were they pinched at any
time in the growth year. Parentage: The female or seed parent is
the unreleased, non-patented, proprietary Hibiscus known by the
breeder code 12-07-1, the male or pollen parent is `Vintage Wine`;
Propagation: Method.--Shoot tip cuttings and sterile shoot-tip
plant tissue culture division. Time to initiate roots from tissue
culture.--About two weeks. Rooting habit.--Normal, branching,
developing thick to about 1.8 cm diameter, fleshy; root color
creamy yellow nearest RHS 158C depending on soil type. Crop
time.--Under normal summer growing conditions 12 to 16 weeks to
flower in a four-liter container from cutting. Plant vigor is very
good. Plant description: Plant habit.--Hardy herbaceous perennial
with about five thick, upright, heavily-branched stems producing an
upright spreading mound to about 93.0 cm tall and about 102.0 cm
wide; flowering from base to top of plant with up to about 16
flowers in the upper main stem and up to 50 total flowers on all
the branches of a single stem. Stem.--Terete, glabrous, glaucous;
to about 90.0 cm tall and about 2.2 cm diameter at base, average
about 82.0 cm tall and about 2.8 cm diameter at base. Stem
color.--Proximal main stems nearest RHS 138A; distal main stems
blend between RHS 147B and RHS 183B. Lateral branches.--5 to 11 per
stem, average about 8 per stem; terete; glabrous; glaucous; to
about 38.0 cm long and 0.9 cm diameter at base, smaller distally.
Lateral branch color.--Proximally nearest a blend between RHS 138B
and RHS 183D; distally nearest a blend between RHS 147B and RHS
187B. Internode.--About 6 nodes per stem below branches and 8 below
single flowers; average about 30 nodes per stem; internode length
about 3.1 cm of unpinched plant. Internode color.--Same as
surrounding stem. Foliage description: Ovate; alternate; crenulate;
apex narrowly acute to nearly apiculate; base cordate;
micro-puberulent adaxial and adaxial glabrous; not incised; adaxial
and abaxial surfaces dull; leaf blades to about 21.5 cm long and
about 12.4 cm across, average blade size 16.0 cm long and 10.0 cm
wide; no fragrance detected; Foliage color.--Young expanding leaves
-- adaxial variable blotches between RHS 137A and RHS N187A,
abaxial nearest RHS 147C; mature leaves -- adaxial nearest RHS
NN137B, blotched randomly with nearest RHS N187A, abaxial nearest
RHS 147B. Veins.--Palmate; dull adaxial and abaxial; slightly
applanate adaxial, costate on abaxial; micro-puberulent adaxial and
abaxial. Vein color.--Young adaxial nearest RHS 187B and abaxial
nearest RHS 183D; mature adaxial midrib between RHS 187B and RHS
187C, secondary veins nearest RHS 185B, abaxial between RHS 176B
and RHS 182C. Petioles.--Cylindrical distally and proximally
slightly applanate adaxial to abaxial, glabrous; to about 8.2 cm
long and 6.0 mm diameter at base, average about 6.0 cm long and 5.0
mm wide at base. Petiole color.--Young and mature adaxial between
RHS 166A and RHS N186C; abaxial between RHS 176C and RHS 146C.
Flower description: Complete; actinomophic; mostly outwardly
facing; rotate; to about 22.0 cm across and 5.5 cm deep, decreasing
distally; with a reddish center eye with short radiating veins
about 5.8 cm across; Buds one day prior to opening
flat.--Ellipsoidal with rounded apex and bluntly truncate base;
sepals proximally adpressed to petals and distally slightly
flaring; to about 6.5 cm long and about 4.4 cm diameter in middle;
petals tightly closed at apices. Bud color one day prior to
anthesis.--Exposed petal color nearest RHS 56B with exposed petal
margin nearest RHS 63A and calyx nearest RHS 146B. Epicalyx.--Nine
to eleven per flower; linear; margin micro-ciliolate, glabrous;
micro-puberulent abaxial and adaxial; sharply acute apex and
truncate base, arcuate upwards near apex; about 2.5 cm long and
about 4.0 mm wide at base. Epicalyx color.--Adaxial between RHS
146B and RHS 146C with margins nearest RHS 137B, abaxial nearest
RHS 137B. Calyx.--Campanulate, form star-shaped hypanthium; to
about 2.0 cm deep and 8.0 cm wide at apices. Sepals.--Five,
acuminate apex; glabrous; margin entire, edentate; abaxial and
adaxial surfaces matte; about 4.2 cm long, about 2.5 cm wide near
middle, fused in basal 2.0 cm. Sepal color.--Adaxial base between
RHS 146D and RHS 145A, distally nearest RHS 146B with veins of
nearest RHS 145C; abaxial nearest RHS 146B with veins between RHS
195B and RHS 195A. Inflorescence.--Solitary, up to 66 per branched
stem without pinching; nearly flat face; mostly outwardly facing.
Flower lastingness.--Persist for one to two days; effective for at
least 6 weeks beginning late July. Flower fragrance.--No detectable
fragrance. Petals.--Five; claw-like with broad limb;
micro-puberulent adaxial except adaxial eye zone lustrous,
remaining distal adaxial portion and entire abaxial glabrous and
matte; adnate to the androecium to form a column, leading edge
(inside) frequently folded under between 3.0 to 10.0 mm; imbricate
to about 110% to 125% overlapping at widest part (petals
overlapping 10% to 25% the petal two positions over); margin entire
with moderate undulations; palmately veined, primary veins deeply
impressed and pleated on adaxial and slightly costate abaxial;
surface moderately rippled; apex rounded with distinct basal claw
and limb. Petal size.--To about 16.0 cm across and about 10.8 cm
long, claw base about 9.0 mm across (smaller in later part of
flowering season); reddish eye extending about 2.4 cm from base
with veins extending about 4.0 mm beyond eye. Petal color.--Adaxial
distal portion and on leading edge nearest RHS 68A and between RHS
N155B and RHS NN155A, the dark red eye portion nearest RHS 59B
distally toward perimeter, veins nearest RHS 53A near eye and then
RHS NN155D distally, and base nearest RHS 46B; middle portion
between RHS N155B and RHS NN155A near eye and developing to nearest
RHS 68A on leading and distal petal edge; abaxial 3.0 mm wide
center nearest RHS NN155D, then distally nearest RHS 155A,
progressing to NN155D in the middle portion and distal and leading
edge nearest RHS 68B with veins nearest RHS 155A proximally and
becoming nearest RHS NN155C distally. Gynoecium.--Single; partially
enclosed in column; Staminal column: micro-puberulent and lustrous;
about 4.5 cm long and about 1.0 cm across at base; with pistil
exserted about 8.0 mm above top of column; Column color: without
anthocyanins, nearest RHS NN155B; Style: cylindrical; nearly
completely enclosed in column; micro-puberulent in region above
staminal column, glabrous within column; about 5.7 cm total length,
exserted above column in distal 13.0 mm, penta-furcate in about
distal 7.0 mm, branch diameter about 1.0 mm and arcuate upwards
distally; color nearest RHS NN155B; Stigma: typically five;
flattened globose; puberulent; about 4.0 mm in diameter and 1.5 mm
tall; color between RHS 19C and RHS 19D; Ovary: superior; inverted
conic; slightly longitudinally grooved; acute apex and truncate
base; about 16.0 mm across at base and about 11.0 mm tall; color
nearest RHS 145D. Androecium.--Numerous, approximately 100 to 140;
Filaments: terete; lustrous and glabrous; arcuate toward stigma;
covering almost entire column; to about 5.0 mm long and about 0.35
mm diameter; color nearest RHS NN155B; Anthers: reniform;
basifixed; longitudinal; about 2.3 mm long and 1.8 mm across and
about 0.8 mm thick; color nearest RHS 18D; Pollen: abundant,
globose, less than 0.1 mm long; color nearest RHS 18C. Pedicel:
Terete; micro-puberulent in proximal portion; slightly glaucous;
average length from base of sepal to abscission point about 20.0 mm
long, from abscission point to stem node about 55.0 mm long; about
5.0 mm wide; longer on early flowers and decreasing in distal
flowers; from abscission later to node or base; Pedicel color:
Between RHS 145B and RHS 146C proximally, and becoming between RHS
146D with nearest RHS 178C distally; Peduncle: Terete; glabrous:
glaucous; to about 90.0 cm tall and about 22.0 cm diameter at base,
average about 82.0 cm tall and about 1.7 cm diameter at base;
Peduncle color: Proximal main stems nearest RHS 138A; distal main
stems blend between RHS 147B and RHS 183B; Fruit and seed: None
observed, but not tested for sterility; Resistance: Hibiscus
`Spinderella` has not displayed any pest and disease susceptibility
or resistance beyond that typical of hardy perennial hibiscus.
Culture: The plant grows best with plenty of moisture. Hardiness at
least from USDA zone 4 through 9.
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