U.S. patent number PP33,367 [Application Number 16/974,231] was granted by the patent office on 2021-08-17 for origanum plant named `drops of jupiter`.
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 |
PP33,367 |
Hansen |
August 17, 2021 |
Origanum plant named `Drops of Jupiter`
Abstract
The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Origanum `Drops of
Jupiter`, has dense, rounded, habit with mostly upright to slightly
outwardly stems. The foliage is ovate, and chartreuse-yellow and
resists burning when planted in full sun. Flowering begins in early
summer and continues to early fall or frost with mauve-pink petal
colors with persistent purple calyces. The new plant is attractive
and useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, or in
containers.
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.: |
16/974,231 |
Filed: |
November 19, 2020 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/258 |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101); A01H 6/50 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/258 |
Other References
Digger Magazine Farwest New Varieties Showcase 2020, retrieved on
Mar. 18, 2021, retrieved from the Internet at
http://www.diggermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/New-Varieties-20-
20-Final.pdf, pp. 34-48. (Year: 2020). cited by examiner.
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Primary Examiner: Hwu; June
Claims
I claim:
1. The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Origanum `Drops of
Jupiter` essentially as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical denomination: Origanum vulgare.
Variety designation: `Drops of Jupiter`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)
The first non-enabling disclosure of the claimed plant, in the form
of a photograph and brief description on a website operated by
Walters Gardens, Inc. on Feb. 2, 2020. Subsequently, the new plant
was advertised in the "Walters Gardens 20-21 Catalog" by Walters
Gardens, Inc. released on May 20, 2020. The claimed plant was first
sold to the public on Aug. 23, 2020 by Walters Gardens, Inc., who
obtained the plant and all information relating thereto, from the
inventor. No plants of Origanum `Drops of Jupiter` have been sold
to the public 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
Origanum named `Drops of Jupiter`. The new plant resulted from a
self-pollination by the inventor of the unreleased, unnamed,
proprietary seedling named by breeder code 14-6-3 (not patented) as
the female parent and the male parent on Jun. 30, 2015 at a
wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich. Seed was harvested in
the summer of 2015 and given the breeder code 15-2-1 during the
final trial stages of the summer of 2015. The new plant has been
asexually propagated initially by division in fall of 2017 followed
by shoot tip cuttings since the summer of 2018 with the resultant
plants remaining identical to the original plant, stable and true
to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Origanum `Drops of Jupiter` is different from its parents and all
other Ornamental Oregano known to the inventor. The nearest
comparison cultivars known to the inventor are `Dr. Ietswaart` (not
patented), which is one of the grandparents of the new plant and
`Aurea` (not patented). `Dr. Ietswaart` has a broader habit and the
flowers are very pale lavender to white. `Aurea` is more upright in
habit and the flowers are paler pink with less significant bracts.
The selfed parent, 14-6-3, is taller and looser in habit. Another
grandparent, `Lizzie` has green foliage with longer inflorescence
with lighter lavender-pink flower. Compared with `ALL120506` U.S.
Plant Pat. No. 29,589 the new plant has smaller chartreuse foliage
and smaller flowers and calyces. `Bellisimo` U.S. Plant Pat. No.
27,353 has deeper colored flower bracts and the foliage is a deep
olive green.
The present invention has not been evaluated under all possible
environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary with changes in
the environment such as light, temperature, water and nutrient
availability, etc. without a change in the genotype of the plant.
Origanum `Drops of Jupiter` is unique from all other Ornamental
Oregano known to the inventor in the following combined traits: 1.
The habit is dense, rounded, mound with mostly upright to slightly
outright stems spreading with maturity. 2. Foliage is ovate and
chartreuse yellow when planted in full sun and resist burning. 3.
Flowers are mauve-pink with showy and persistent purple calyces. 4.
Flowers beginning in early summer and continues into early fall or
until frost.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of the new plant Origanum `Drops of Jupiter` are of
a two-year-old plant in a full sun trial garden in Zeeland, Mich.
and demonstrate the unique aspects of the new plant. 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 overall habit of the new plant in mid-season
flower.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flowers and buds on cut stems.
DETAILED PLANT DESCRIPTION
The following descriptions are based on a two-year-old plant of
Origanum `Drops of Jupiter` grown in a full-sun display garden in
sandy loam with supplemental water and fertilizer as needed. The
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 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. Parentage: Proprietary unnamed seedling selection
known only by the breeder code 14-6-3 as the female or seed parent
and also the male or pollen; Plant habit: Herbaceous perennial;
sprawling mound to about 39 cm tall and 82 cm wide at the soil
level when in peak flower; Growth: Rapid; finishing in a standard
#1-15 cm container in about 10 to 12 weeks from rooted plug; time
to initiate roots at 23.degree. C. about one to two weeks; Root:
Fine, freely branching; color nearest RHS 155D depending on soil
type and nutrient content; Foliage: Opposite; simple; ovate; acute
apex; attenuate to slightly oblique base; margin entire to
micro-ciliolate; sparsely puberulent adaxial and glabrous abaxial;
adaxial and abaxial surface matte; distal cauline foliage sessile;
Leaf size: Blade size about 27.0 mm long and 18.0 mm wide; distal
cauline foliage decreasing in size; Leaf color: Young adaxial
nearest RHS 144A, young abaxial between RHS 145A and RHS 138B;
mature adaxial variable comprising RHS 161D, RHS 144A and between
RHS 144A and RHS N144A, mature abaxial variable comprising RHS
146D, RHS 146C and RHS 161D; Leaf fragrance: Pleasantly spicy;
strongly aromatic; Venation: Pinnate; glabrous; slightly impressed
on adaxial surface and ribbed on abaxial surface; Vein color: And
between RHS 144A and RHS N144A on adaxial surface and nearest RHS
146D on abaxial surface; Petiole: Flat; puberulent adaxial and
abaxial; sessile on distal foliage; Petiole size: To 9.0 mm long
and 2.0 mm wide at base; Petiole color: Nearest RHS 145C adaxial
and abaxial; Stem: About 36 main stems per plant; micro-puberulent;
quadrangular, about 4.5 mm across at base and to about 51.0 cm
long; upright to outwardly; heavily branched at about the distal 14
nodes; to about 28 branches of up to about 13.0 cm long and about
1.0 mm across at base, decreasing distally; branch angle about 45
to 50 degrees below vertical; Internodes: About 21 per stem;
average about 2.4 cm apart with greatest distance in the middle of
the stem; Stem color: Young actively growing nearest RHS 145C,
older distal portion nearest RHS 187A, proximal portion nearest RHS
N202A; node color typically same as surrounding stem;
Inflorescence: Compact cyme with small ornamental bracts subtending
individual flowers; to about 18 flowers per branchlet; flowering in
distal 28.0 cm to about 19.0 cm wide; Flowering season: From about
early-summer to early fall; Peduncle: Mostly vertical, puberulent;
cylindrical; stiff; strong; to about 2.5 cm long and 0.2 cm
diameter; with about 18 flowers; Peduncle color: Nearest RHS 187C;
Pedicel: Sessile; Flower bud: Obovate; about 4.0 mm long and 1.2 mm
wide near apex one day prior to opening; abaxial calyx; Flower bud
color: Petal portion nearest RHS 75B, calyx proximal portion
nearest RHS 145A, distally nearest RHS 187B; Flowers: Zygomorphic;
bilabiate; about 8.0 mm long to exserted pistil, about 3.5 mm wide
at lower lip and 3.0 mm tall; sympetalous with basal 4.0 mm fused;
bisexual or lacking androecium; synsepalous; Corolla: About 6.0 mm
long and 3.5 mm wide and 3.0 mm tall; fused tube portion about 4.0
mm long and 2.0 mm diameter at fusion and 1.0 mm diameter at base;
Upper lip.--Tri-lobed; center lobe rounded apex and entire margin,
about 1.0 mm long and 1.0 mm wide; two side lobes rounded apex and
entire margin, about 1.0 mm long and 0.7 mm wide. Upper lip
color.--Initially adaxial and abaxial nearest RHS 75B distally with
base nearest RHS NN155D, at maturity and before dropping adaxial
and abaxial nearest RHS 77C distally with basal 2.0 mm of corolla
tube nearest RHS NN155D. Lower lip.--Bi-lobed; each lobe rounded
apex and entire margin; to about 1.7 mm long and 1.0 mm wide. Lower
lip color.--Initially adaxial and abaxial nearest RHS 75B distally
with base nearest RHS NN155D, at maturity and before dropping
adaxial and abaxial nearest RHS 77C distally with basal 2.0 mm of
corolla tube nearest RHS NN155D. Calyx: Synsepalous; campanulate;
5-merous fused into calyx tube; 2.0 mm long and 1.0 mm across;
Sepals: Five; glabrous; fused in basal 1.5 mm and separated in
distal 0.5 mm; acute apex, base fused; persistent; about 2.0 mm
long and 0.5 mm across at fusion; Sepal color: Adaxial and abaxial
base nearest RHS 145A, adaxial and abaxial apices nearest RHS 187B;
Bracts: Below each flower and branch; ovate, acute margin,
attenuate base, glabrous adaxial and abaxial; to about 5.0 mm long
and 3.0 mm across near middle; Bract color: Adaxial and abaxial the
same; nearest RHS 144A proximally and distally nearest RHS 187B;
Gynoecium: Single; 8.0 mm long; Style.--Cylindrical; glabrous;
about 5.5 mm long and 0.3 mm diameter; color in basal portion
nearest RHS 75D, distally before stigma between RHS 64B and RHS
64C. Stigma.--Bifid; about 0.7 mm long; color nearest RHS 64A.
Ovary.--Superior; globose; about 0.5 mm diameter; ovary color
nearest RHS 145B. Androecium: Four; Anthers.--Basifixed; globose;
about 0.2 mm diameter; color nearest RHS 202A. Filaments.--Adnate
inner corolla tube; various lengths from about 1.0 mm to 5.0 mm and
about 0.1 mm diameter; color nearest RHS NN155D. Pollen.--Not
observed. Flower fragrance: No distinct fragrance detected from
flowers; Fruit and seed: Not observed; Pest and disease:
Susceptibility or resistance beyond that which is typical for
Origanum but typically not prone to browsing by deer or rodents.
The new plant has not been found to be susceptible to bacterial or
fungal leaf spots. The foliage resists burning in full sun.
Hardiness: Hardy from USDA zones 4 through 9.
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