U.S. patent number PP33,489 [Application Number 17/300,044] was granted by the patent office on 2021-09-14 for x mangave plant named `wavecrest`.
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 |
PP33,489 |
Hansen |
September 14, 2021 |
x Mangave plant named `Wavecrest`
Abstract
A new and unique X Mangave plant named `Wavecrest` characterized
by a compact mound of lanceolate, variegated, coarsely sinuate,
folded to concaved foliage. The foliage center is bluish-green and
the marginal variegation is variable between yellowish and light
chartreuse with a darker chartreuse intermediate zone. Marginal and
apical spines are soft and flexible. Leaves develop small,
irregular, greyed-purple spots with strong ultra violet light. The
new plants is suitable for the garden landscape or as a potted
plant in the garden or around the home.
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: |
77665575 |
Appl.
No.: |
17/300,044 |
Filed: |
February 23, 2021 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/373 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/12 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/12 (20180101); A01H 6/12 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/373 |
Primary Examiner: Robinson; Keith O.
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental X Mangave plant named
`Wavecrest` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical classification: hybrid; x Mangave times Agave.
Variety denomination: `Wavecrest`.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to the new and distinct X Mangave
hybrid plant, x Mangave `Wavecrest` discovered on Apr. 15, 2020 by
the inventor at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich.,
USA as a viviparous plantlet on a flower stem of a randomly
variegated mutation of `Catch a Wave`, the original `Catch a Wave`
is assigned the U.S. Plant Pat. No. 29,723. Through trials at the
same nursery the plant was originally assigned the breeder code
20-SP-MANG-959. The new plant has been successfully asexually
propagated initially by scape offshoots at the same nursery in
Zeeland, Mich. Viviparous plantlets have been found to produce
stable and identical plants that maintain all the unique
characteristics of the original plant.
No plants of x Mangave `Wavecrest` have been sold, under this or
any name, in this country or anywhere in the world, prior to the
filing of this application, nor has any disclosure of the new plant
been made prior to the filing of this application.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
X Mangave `Wavecrest` differs from its parent as well as all other
Manfreda, Agave and x Mangave known to the applicant. Compared with
the parent the foliage of the new plant has stable variegation with
the lighter coloration just on the margin. `Catch a Wave` has
similar coarse waves to the foliage, but the coloration is silvery
blue-green with greyed purple spots.
The most similar cultivars known to the inventor are x Mangave
`Foxy Lady` U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 16/602,783 and
`Bridal Falls` U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 16/974,102.
`Foxy Lady` has a smaller size but has lighter creamy variegated
leaf margins, the habit is more upright and the foliage is more
glaucous and flatter with less undulation, with larger and sharper
teeth, and the leaves are more numerous and do not have as obvious
greyed-purple spotting. `Bridal Falls` has a habit with more
cascading foliage and the leaves are larger, less sinuate, the
variegated margin is more creamy-white and the teeth are much
larger.
The new plant, `Wavecrest`, is unique from each of the above
cultivars and all Agave, X Mangave and Manfreda known to the
inventor by the following combined traits: 1. Compact mound of
lanceolate, coarsely sinuate foliage, folded to concaved; 2. The
center of the foliage is bluish-green and the margin of the leaves
is yellowish to light chartreuse with a darker chartreuse
intermediate zone; 3. With intense ultraviolet light the foliage
develops heavy, irregular, greyed-purple spots; 4. Teeth on leaves
are soft and very flexible; 5. Moderate to rapid growth rate.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The drawing of x Mangave `Catch a Wave` demonstrates the overall
appearance of a one-year-old plant grown in a container in a
greenhouse with supplemental water and fertilizer as needed. 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 a top view of the foliage of the new plant.
FIG. 2 shows a top side of the new plant.
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, x Mangave
`Wavecrest`, 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 one-year-old
plant in a commercial wholesale greenhouse in Zeeland, Mich. with
supplemental water and fertilizer as needed. Parentage: A randomly
variegated mutation of `Catch a Wave`; Propagation: Division of
side shoots and sterile shoot-tip tissue culture; Time to initiate
roots from viviparous plantlet: About 21 days; Growth rate:
Moderate to rapid; Crop time: About 12 to 14 weeks to finish in a
3.8 liter container from a 35 mm tissue culture growing at about
21.degree. C.; Rooting habit: Fleshy, lightly branching, with roots
up to 15 cm long; Root color: Variable depending on grow activity,
and soil; between nearest RHS NN155C and RHS 161C; Plant shape and
habit: Succulent, frost-tender, herbaceous perennial with basal
rosettes of about 15 leaves radially emerging outwardly from
central stem, producing a radially-symmetrical, rounded mound;
Plant size: Foliage height about 50.0 cm tall from soil line to the
top of the leaves and about 21.0 cm wide at the widest point
slightly below soil line in container; Foliage description:
Lanceolate; simple; margins dentate with flexible teeth; slightly
glaucous abaxial and adaxial; semi-lustrous adaxial and abaxial;
glabrous abaxial and adaxial; teeth about 2.0 mm long, 3.0 mm wide
at the base and spaced an average of about 5.0 mm apart; apex acute
with sharp, flexible, apical spine; truncate sessile base;
partially conduplicate; coarsely sinuate; with greyed-purple spots
about 1.0 mm to 4.0 mm in diameter; Leaf size: To about 16.0 cm
long, about 4.5 cm wide naturally approximately one-thirds from
base, about 0.4 cm thick at base and about 2.0 cm deep; adaxial
margin width to about 11.0 mm wide near middle, abaxial margin to
about 5.0 mm; adaxial intermediate portion nearest 7.0 mm wide,
abaxial intermediate portion inconsistent, to about 2.0 mm wide
when present; adaxial center portion to about 33.0 mm wide and
abaxial center portion to about 50.0 mm wide; Foliage fragrance:
None observed; Leaf blade color: Adaxial.--Margin between RHS 151D
and RHS 8B in distal portion and between RHS N144D and RHS 145A in
the proximal portion with spots nearest RHS 137C in both distal and
proximal portion and intensifying with ultraviolet light exposure
to nearest RHS N186C; center between RHS NN137A and RHS 139A with
spots nearest RHS 136A intensifying to between RHS N186C and RHS
N186B in high ultraviolet light; intermediate portion nearest RHS
146B with spots an overlay nearest RHS N186C. Abaxial.--Margin
distal portion between 151D and RHS 8B and proximal potion between
RHS N144D and RHS 145A with spots between RHS 145A and RHS 146D
intensifying with ultraviolet exposure to an overlay of nearest RHS
N186C; center nearest RHS 137B with spots of nearest RHS 137A and
intensifying to an overlay of nearest RHS N186C; intermediate layer
nearest RHS 146C with spots nearest RHS 144A. Teeth.--Variable
nearest RHS 145C and between RHS 151D and RHS 8B. Apical spine:
Small, sharp and flexible; about 2.0 to 3.0 mm long and less than
1.0 mm across at base; Apical spine color: Between RHS 166A and RHS
166B; Petiole: Leaves sessile; Veins: Parallel; not distinct
abaxial or adaxial; Inflorescence description: Not yet observed;
Fruit and seed not observed; Disease resistance: X Mangave
`Wavecrest` has not been observed to be resistant to diseases
beyond that which is normal for X Mangave, Agave or Manfreda. The
new plant is xeromorphic and survives well with minimal water once
established. The new plant is hardy to least USDA zone 10. Full
extent of winter hardiness has not been tested.
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