U.S. patent number PP33,166 [Application Number 16/974,233] was granted by the patent office on 2021-06-15 for x mangave plant named `fiercely fabulous`.
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 |
PP33,166 |
Hansen |
June 15, 2021 |
X Mangave plant named `Fiercely Fabulous`
Abstract
A new and unique X Mangave plant named `Fiercely Fabulous`
characterized by compact habit of lanceolate foliage with medium
grayish-green color and grayed-purplish spots and burgundy
air-brushing with strong ultraviolet light exposure. The new plant
has numerous chartreuse flowers with burgundy blushing on tall,
stiff, highly-branched scapes. The new plant is suitable as a
potted houseplant plant, as a container plant for the patio or
garden and for the garden or planted in the landscape, and the
flowers are loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds.
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.: |
16/974,233 |
Filed: |
November 19, 2020 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/373 |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/12 (20180101); A01H 6/12 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/373 |
Primary Examiner: Hwu; June
Claims
I claim:
1. A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental X Mangave plant named
`Fiercely Fabulous` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Botanical classification: Manfreda x Agave hybrid.
Variety denomination: `Fiercely Fabulous`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)
The first non-enabling public disclosure of X Mangave `Fiercely
Fabulous` was on Mar. 2, 2020 as a brief description and photo on
two websites operated by Walters Gardens, Inc. Information for this
website and plants for this sale were obtained from the inventor.
No plants of X Mangave `Fiercely Fabulous` 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, and such disclosure within one year was either derived
directly or indirectly from the inventor.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to the new and distinct X Mangave
plant, X Mangave `Fiercely Fabulous` hybridized on Nov. 20, 2015 by
the inventor at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich.,
USA as a cross between an unreleased proprietary hybrid X Mangave
known by the breeder code 12-3-31 as the female or seed parent and
an unreleased proprietary hybrid X Mangave known by the breeder
code 12-11-2 as the male or pollen parent. Through trials at the
same nursery the plant was referred to by the code 16-22-12. The
new plant has been successfully asexually propagated initially in
2018 by shoot tip tissue culture at the same nursery in Zeeland,
Mich. This asexual propagation system has been found to produce
stable and identical plants that maintain all the unique
characteristics of the original plant in successive
generations.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
X Mangave `Fiercely Fabulous` differs from its parents as well as
all other Manfreda, Agave and X Mangave known to the applicant. The
most similar known X Mangave cultivar known to the inventor are:
`Silver Fox` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 29,642, `Mayan Queen` U.S. Plant
Pat. No. 31,312, `Catch a Wave` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 29,723,
`Moonglow` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 29,195, `Aztec King` U.S. Plant Pat.
No. 32,151, `Desert Dragon` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,311, `Inkblot`
U.S. Plant Pat. No. 29,431, and `Freckles and Speckles U.S. Pat.
No. 30,904.
`Silver Fox` has a more compact habit and lacks the grey-purple
spotting. `Mayan Queen` lacks the grey-purple spotting. `Catch a
Wave` has leaves that are a more silvery-blue coloration and the
leaves are more folded. `Moonglow` has narrower leaves that lack
the large teeth, and the habit is flatter. `Aztec King` has broader
leaves on a larger habit and lacks the large marginal teeth.
`Desert Dragon` has narrower leaves with a more undulating margin
and lacks the large marginal teeth. `Inkblot` has flatter growth
habit, the leaves arch more, are longer, thinner and narrower, with
less burgundy airbrushing, and the marginal teeth are smaller.
`Freckles and Speckles` has narrower, shorter foliage with smaller
spotting, lacks the large marginal teeth, and has a smaller, less
arching habit.
The female parent has bright yellow flowers on heavier branched
scapes and the foliage lacks the greyed-purple spotting of the new
plant. The male parent has wider leaves with greyed-purple spotting
and the habit of the foliage is more upright.
The new plant, `Fiercely Fabulous`, is unique from all of these
variegated Agave, X Mangave and Manfreda known to the inventor by
the following combined traits: 1. Compact mounded habit with 30 to
40 leaves at flowering; 2. About with 30 to 40 lanceolate leaves at
flowering; 3. Foliage with large flexible marginal teeth and
semi-flexible sharp apical mucro; 4. Leaves develop grayed-purplish
spots and burgundy air brushing with strong ultraviolet light
exposure; 5. Moderate to rapid growth rate; 6. Numerous flowers of
chartreuse with burgundy blushing on stiff, tall, highly-branched
scapes.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photograph of the new plant demonstrates the overall appearance
of the new plant including the unique traits as a three-year-old
plant grown in a full-sun trial garden 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 the new plant from above.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flowers and buds in the upper
scape.
FIG. 3 shows the foliage habit and scape of the new plant in early
flower development.
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
`Fiercely Fabulous`, 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
two and three-year old plants in a commercial wholesale greenhouse
in Zeeland, Mich. with supplemental water and fertilizer as needed.
Botanical classification: X Mangave hybrid (Manfreda x Agave);
Parentage: 12-3-31 as the female or seed parent and 12-11-2 as the
male or pollen parent; Propagation: Division and sterile plant
tissue culture; Time to initiate roots from tissue culture: About
21 days; Growth rate: Moderate to rapid; Crop time: About 12 to 16
weeks to finish during lengthening spring days from an established
25 mm tissue culture plug to a 65 mm diameter container; Rooting
habit: Fleshy, lightly branching, with roots up to 30 cm long; Root
color: Nearest RHS 158C; Plant shape and habit: Succulent
herbaceous perennial with basal rosettes of up to about 38 fleshy
leaves radially emerging and arching from central rhizome,
producing a symmetrical, low, rounded mound; Plant size: Foliage
height about 25.0 cm tall from soil line to the top of the leaves
and 67.0 cm wide at soil level, flowering to about 218.0 cm tall
and to about 33.0 cm wide at the widest flowers; Foliage
description: Lanceolate; simple; sarcous; glabrous; fibrous;
slightly asperous and glaucous adaxial and abaxial; margins
coarsely dentate with flexible teeth; apex acute with sharp
semi-flexible mucro; base truncate, sessile, clasping;
concavo-convex and slightly sinuate with maturity; Leaf size: To
about 33.0 cm long, about 8.5 cm wide at middle, 5.8 cm wide at
base, 1.5 cm thick and 3.0 cm deep; average about 29.5 cm long, 6.5
cm wide in middle, 4.5 cm wide at base and 1.0 cm thick; usually
bi-laterally symmetrical; glabrous and slightly glaucous above and
below; speckles of variable sizes from about 1.5 mm diameter to
about 13.0 mm long and 8.0 mm across, frequently overlapping; teeth
to about 5.0 mm long and 5.0 mm across at base; Foliage fragrance:
None observed; Leaf blade color: Adaxial (young).--Nearest RHS 147C
with speckles nearest RHS 191A. Abaxial (young).--Nearest RHS 138B
with speckles nearest RHS N187A. Adaxial (mature).--Blend between
RHS N138C and RHS 188B, maculate with speckles of between RHS N186C
and RHS N187B and with higher ultraviolet moderately blushed
nearest RHS N186C. Abaxial (mature).--Between RHS 189B and RHS
191B, with speckles of nearest RHS N187B. Marginal teeth.--Adaxial
and abaxial base between RHS N187B and RHS 191A; adaxial distal 2.0
mm tip nearest RHS 161C and abaxial 2.0 mm tip nearest RHS 161C on
older leaves; and younger adaxial and abaxial leaves nearest RHS
156D in distal 1.5 mm tips. Mucro: Semi-flexible; sharp; straight,
about 9.0 mm long and 1.2 mm across; Mucro color: Nearest RHS 200A;
Petiole: Sessile; Veins: Parallel; not distinct; Peduncle: Terete;
glaucous; glabrous; stiff; strong; upwardly; heavily branched with
about 38 branches; about 218.0 cm long and 2.5 cm diameter at base
and 2.0 cm diameter below first branches; branches to about 17.0 cm
long and about 0.7 cm diameter at base; branch aspect upwardly and
outwardly distally becoming more outwardly; Peduncle color:
Proximally between RHS N186C and RHS N187B, distally nearest RHS
147C with blush nearest RHS N186C diminishing to RHS 146C in distal
15 cm; branches nearest RHS N186C in proximal region with reduced
blushing distally to RHS 146C without blushing; Pedicel: Terete;
glaucous; glabrous; stiff; strong; average about 1.5 mm long and
3.0 mm diameter; Pedicel color: Nearest RHS 146D; Cauline bracts:
About 14 per scape below flowers and one at each branch;
lanceolate; simple; sarcous, glabrous; margins finely dentate with
flexible teeth to about 0.5 mm long; apex narrowly acute with
semi-flexible mucro to about 4 mm long; base truncate, sessile,
clasping; typically adpressed in proximal two-thirds; to about 19.0
cm long and about 3.0 cm wide near base, decreasing distally; color
adaxial nearest RHS 147C where adpressed to stem and developing
light blush and spots of nearest RHS N186C where exposed to more
sun, abaxial between RHS 138C and 147C where overlapped with other
bracts and where exposed to more sun between RHS 147C with moderate
blush of N186C and spots of nearest RHS N187B; Buds one day prior
to opening: Elongated globose; about 3.8 cm long and about 10.0 mm
across at bulb, base about 5.0 mm diameter, bulb about 2.2 cm long;
Bud color: Nearest RHS 146D in basal portion and distally becoming
between RHS 178B and RHS 183B; Flower description: Perfect;
incomplete; actinomorphic; about 5.6 cm long to exserted anthers
and pistil and opening to about 3.0 cm across at outside of
anthers; corolla to about 2.7 cm long and 1.8 cm wide at apex;
lasting about 3 to 4 days per flower; flowering period about three
weeks once plant is mature, approximately three-years-old;
producing abundant nectar; Inflorescence: Approximately 450 to 500
flowers per scape; aspect mostly upright; flowering portion about
148.0 cm tall and about 30.0 cm across; Flower fragrance: None
detected; Tepals: Six in two sets of three; glabrous and slightly
lustrous adaxial and abaxial; acute apex and fused base; outer set
about 25.0 mm long, fused in basal 10.0 mm and about 6.0 mm wide
just above fusion; inner set about 25.0 mm long and 7.0 mm wide
just above fusion; inner set creased on abaxial side along margin
where overlapped with outer set while in bud; Tepal color: Outer
tepal set adaxial base between RHS 151A and RHS 153D, middle
portion nearest RHS 153D, distally becoming more concentrated
maculate with nearest RHS 183A with undertone of RHS 163B; outer
set abaxial base between RHS 151A and RHS 153D, middle portion
nearest RHS 153D with light blush nearest RHS 187B, distally
becoming more concentrated to nearly solid RHS 183A; inner tepal
set adaxial base between RHS 151A and RHS 153D, middle portion
longitudinal center between RHS 146D and RHS N144D with margins
nearest RHS 162B with light blush nearest RHS 183A; abaxial inner
set base nearest RHS 146D, middle portion margin lighter than RHS
153D and longitudinal center between RHS 146D and RHS 160B
moderately blushed with RHS 187B; Androecium: Six; Filaments.--Six;
terete distally, slightly applanate base; stiff and straight; about
30.0 mm long and 1.0 mm across at base; adnate with inner corolla
in proximal 5.0 mm; color nearest RHS 162A and moderately maculate
with nearest RHS 187C. Anther.--Dorsifixed; longitudinal; straight,
oblong; about 16.0 mm long and 2.0 mm diameter before opening;
color nearest blend between RHS 151B and RHS 160A.
Pollen.--Abundant; color nearest RHS 9A. Gynoecium: Single; 54.0 mm
long; Style.--34.0 mm long and 2.0 mm diameter at base; color at
base nearest RHS 160D, distally between RHS 144D and RHS 146D and
moderately maculate in the middle portion with nearest RHS 187C.
Stigma.--Turbinate, apex tri-lobed; distally puberulent; about 2.5
mm tall and 3.0 mm across top; color side nearest RHS N199B; top
stigmatic surface in tri-pointed star with color nearest RHS 196C.
Ovary.--Inferior; oblong; about 18.0 mm long and 5.0 mm across;
surface smooth; color nearest RHS 146D. Fruit: Not yet observed;
Seed: Not yet observed; Disease resistance: X Mangave `Fiercely
Fabulous` has not been observed to be resistant to diseases common
to other X Mangave beyond that which is normal for Agave or
Manfreda. The plant is xeromorphic and survives well with minimal
water once established. Hardiness at least from USDA zone 9 to 11.
Full extent of winter hardiness has not been tested.
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