U.S. patent number PP34,269 [Application Number 17/300,991] was granted by the patent office on 2022-05-24 for hosta plant named `wild imagination`.
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 |
PP34,269 |
Hansen |
May 24, 2022 |
Hosta plant named `Wild Imagination`
Abstract
A new and distinct Hosta plant named `Wild Imagination` with
medium-sized, rounded-mound habit of glaucous, bluish-green, long
thin foliage. Leaves have are twisted distally and very wavy
margins. The plant produces light purple flared campanulate flowers
on numerous upright scapes well above the foliage beginning in late
July and continuing for about five weeks.
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: |
1000006152567 |
Appl.
No.: |
17/300,991 |
Filed: |
January 13, 2022 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
PLT/353 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A01H
6/12 (20180501) |
Current International
Class: |
A01H
5/02 (20180101); A01H 6/12 (20180101) |
Field of
Search: |
;PLT/353 |
Primary Examiner: Bell; Kent L
Claims
It is claimed:
1. A new and distinct ornamental Hosta plant named `Wild
Imagination` as herein described and illustrated.
Description
Latin name and variety denomination of the plant:
Botanical classification: Hosta hybrid (Tratt.).
Variety denomination: `Wild Imagination`.
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(B)(6)
The non-enabling disclosure of the claimed plant, in the form of
cultivar registration with The American Hosta Society which is the
International Cultivar Registration Authority for the genus Hosta
was by the inventor in December 2020 with public printing in early
2021. No plants of Hosta `Wild Imagination` 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 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 a new and distinct Hosta plant,
Hosta `Wild Imagination` hereinafter also referred to as the new
plant or just the cultivar name, `Wild Imagination`. Hosta `Wild
Imagination` is the result of an intentional cross by the inventor
on Jul. 31, 2012 at a wholesale perennial nursery greenhouse in
Zeeland, Mich., USA. The female parent is Hosta `Electrocution`
(not patented) and the male parent is an unreleased proprietary
hybrid known only by the breeder code H10-366 (not patented). The
new plant passed initial evaluation in the summer of 2015, was give
the breeder code 12-179-1 and was approved for final selection in
the summer of 2018. The new plant has been asexually propagated by
division at the same nursery in Zeeland, Mich., USA since 2016 and
also by careful plant tissue culture with the resultant asexually
propagated plants having retained all the same traits as the
original plant. Hosta `Wild Imagination` is stable and reproduces
true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction in
both methods.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PLANT
There are nearly 7,000 registered Hosta cultivars with The American
Hosta Society, which is the International Cultivar Registration
Authority for the genus Hosta along with a similar number of
unregistered cultivars. The nearest comparison varieties are: `Blue
Cascade` (not patented), `Curly Fries` (not patented), `Silly
String` U.S. Plant Pat. No. 32,127, `Joy Ride` (not patented),
`Fulda` (not patented), and `Neptune` U.S. Plant Pat. No.
19,674.
`Blue Cascade` has glaucous intensely wavy foliage, but the habit
and leaves are smaller. `Curly Fries` has a smaller habit, with
more arching, narrower, chartreuse foliage that is less glaucous
with less intense wavy margins. `Silly String` has a smaller habit
with narrower foliage and the flowers are darker purple. `Joy Ride`
has a smaller habit with broader and shorter leaf blades that have
a coarser marginal wave. `Fulda` has a smaller habit with more
glaucous foliage that is flatter and more ovate, and the flowers
are pale lavender on shorter scapes. `Neptune` has a larger habit
and larger and broader leaves that are more arching and the
flowers, the scapes are more arching and flowers pale lavender.
`Electrocution` has narrower leaf blades that are less glaucous,
more lustrous, more upright with a creamy white margin. The male
parent had glaucous-blue, elongated wedge-shaped leaves and larger
habit with a leaf margin that was not nearly as sinuate.
Other similar Hostas include: `Elvis Lives` (not patented),
`Pineapple Poll` (not patented), and `Blue Sliver` (not patented).
`Elvis Lives` (not patented) has a similar habit with shorter
leaves, less sinuate margin and broader and less narrowly acute
apices with a scape that is more erect with more numerous flowers.
`Pineapple Poll` has foliage with thinner-substance, narrower and
leaf blades without glaucous surfaces with less intense sinuate
margins. `Blue Sliver` is a smaller plant with less undulation of
the foliage and shorter and less narrowly acute apices.
Hosta `Wild Imagination` is distinct from the Hostas listed above
and all other cultivars known to the hybridizer by the following
combined traits: 1. Medium-sized, rounded-mound plant habit with
outwardly, glaucous, blue-green foliage; 2. Foliage has a long,
narrowly-lanceolate apex that is moderately twisted with very wavy
margins; 3. Light purple, flared, campanulate flowers, well above
the foliage, on numerous scapes beginning in late July for about
five weeks.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the overall appearance
of an eight-year-old plant, including the unique traits of `Wild
Imagination`. 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 plant grown in a shaded trial garden with mid-summer
foliage.
FIG. 2 shows a close-up of a twisted leaf with the wavy margins in
early summer.
FIG. 3 shows a close-up of the inside of a flower.
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 `Wild
Imagination`, 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
an eight-year-old plant in a shaded trial garden in Zeeland, Mich.
with supplemental water and fertilizer. Botanical classification:
Hosta hybrid; Parentage: The female parent is `Electrocution`; the
male parent is known only by the breeder code H10-366 comprising
`Fulda` (not patented), `Joy Ride` (not patented) and `Neptune`
(U.S. Plant Pat. No. 19,674); Propagation: Garden division and
sterile shoot-tip tissue culture; Time to initiate roots from
tissue culture: About two to three weeks; Growth rate: Moderate;
Crop time: About 3 to 4 months to finish during the summer in a
one-liter container from rooted tissue culture plantlet; Rooting
habit: Normal, fleshy, lightly branching; Root color: Variable,
nearest RHS 155D depending on soil type; Plant shape and habit:
Hardy herbaceous perennial with basal rosette of mostly outwardly
pointed leaves emerging from rhizomes producing a large symmetrical
rounded-mound of leaves; Plant size: Foliage height to about 56 cm
from the soil line to the top of the leaves and about 135 cm wide
at the widest point slightly above the soil line; Foliage
description: Narrowly lanceolate; glabrous, moderately glaucous
adaxial and abaxial; margin entire and heavily sinuate; narrowly
acute and twisted apex with attenuate base; with slightly impressed
veins; Leaf blade size: To about 30.5 cm long and 9 cm wide; Leaf
blade color: Early season and shortly after emerging adaxial
between RHS 137A and RHS 138A, abaxial between RHS N138C and RHS
137C; flowering season adaxial between RHS 122B and RHS 190B with
wax and nearest RHS 137A with wax removed, abaxial nearest blend
between RHS 189B and RHS N138C; Petiole: Entire, glabrous,
concavo-convex; mostly straight from base of plant to leaf base; to
about 32 cm long and at base 10 mm across and 5 mm deep; Petiole
color: Adaxial distally nearest RHS 137C, proximally nearest RHS
147C becoming more maculate to nearly covering half the surface
with nearest RHS N186C; abaxial distally between RHS 189B and RHS
N138C, proximal seven-eighths nearest RHS 137C, distally nearest
RHS 146C with maculate increasing distally to nearly 75% coverage
with nearest RHS N186C; basal 1 cm of adaxial and abaxial between
RHS NN155B and RHS NN155D with about 50% coverage of spots nearest
RHS N186D; Veins: Parallel; only lightly impressed adaxial,
slightly costate abaxial; 6 to 8 pairs with one midrib, average 7
pairs; Veins color: Adaxial proximally between RHS 122B and RHS 190
B, distally between RHS 146D and RHS 145A; abaxial between RHS 148D
and RHS 145B, abaxial midrib nearest RHS 145D; Flower description:
Buds one day prior to opening: Clavate with acute apex and narrow
tubular base; about 52 mm long, apical bulb about 11 mm diameter
and tube 10 mm long and about 3.5 mm diameter; Bud color: Variable;
distally between RHS 79D and RHS 83C, proximally nearest RHS 79D
with an undertone of nearest RHS 148C, and a basal bulb region
portions nearest RHS NN155D with stripes of nearest RHS 83C;
Flowers: Perfect; campanulate, funnelform with distally flaring
tepals; actinomorphic; attitude outwardly to slightly drooping;
about 40 mm wide and 69 mm long to exserted stigma, corolla portion
64 mm long and distally flared to 40 mm, fused tube portion about
22 mm long and 4 mm diameter (distal flowers smaller); persistent
and drying on scape; effective for a normal period, typically one
day on plant or as cut flower; scapes remain effective with flowers
beginning early summer for about five weeks; about 34 flowers per
scape; average spacing between flowers about 6 mm, significantly
greater in proximal flowers; Inflorescence: Flowering in upper 20
cm of peduncle and about 12 cm wide; Flower period: Beginning late
July and continuing for about five weeks to the end of August;
Floral bracts: Lanceolate; glaucous and glabrous both adaxial and
abaxial; narrowly acute apex; truncate clasping base; enrolled
proximally, flattened distally; upwardly extending about 45.degree.
from scape; to about 45 mm long and 11 mm wide near middle,
decreasing distally; persisting after flowering; Floral bract
color: Adaxial nearest RHS 146C and abaxial nearest RHS 147C;
Cauline bracts: Typically one below initial flowers; lanceolate;
narrowly acute apex; truncate clasping base; concavo-convex; to
about 70 mm long and 13 mm wide; color same as floral bracts;
Flower fragrance: None detected; Tepal: Six; two sets of three,
glabrous, entire; both sets lanceolate to spatulate; with acute
apex; fused in basal 42 mm; Inner set.--About 65 mm long and about
11.0 mm wide. Inner set color.--Not vitreous along margin; adaxial
4 mm wide margin nearest NN155D, center 3 veins nearest RHS 83B
with surrounding center nearest RHS 83C, basal corolla tube portion
nearest RHS NN155B with slight blush of nearest RHS 83C; abaxial
between RHS 83C and RHS 83D with veins nearest RHS 83B. Outer
set.--About 65 mm long and 9 mm wide near fusion. Outer set
color.--Not vitreous along margin; 2 mm wide margin nearest NN155D,
center 3 veins and distal 5 veins nearest RHS 83B with surrounding
center and distal one-third nearest RHS 83C, basal corolla tube
portion nearest RHS NN155B with slight blush of nearest RHS 83C;
abaxial between RHS 83C and RHS 83D with veins nearest RHS 83B.
Gynoecium: Single; tri-carpelled; 69 mm long; Style.--Single;
cylindrical; approximately 65 mm long, 0.8 mm diameter, curved
upward about 90.degree. in distal 12 mm; color nearest RHS NN155B
in distal one-third and transitioning to nearest RHS 145D in
proximal one-third. Stigma.--Globose, about 1 mm tall and 1 mm
across; color nearest RHS NN155C. Ovary.--Superior; ellipsoidal,
lightly fluted longitudinally; about 4 mm long and 2.5 mm diameter
at widest; acute apex and truncate base; color nearest RHS 145C.
Androecium: Six; Filaments.--Cylindrical; approximately 65 mm long
and 0.7 mm in diameter; curved around nearly 90.degree. in the
distal 12 mm; color nearest RHS NN155B distally and nearest RHS
145D proximally. Anthers.--Elliptical; dorsifixed, longitudinally
dehiscent; about 6.0 mm long and 2.5 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick;
color between RHS 85C and RHS 85D with septal lines nearest RHS 79A
prior to anthesis, post anthesis nearest RHS N77C.
Pollen.--Abundant; elliptic, less than 0.1 mm long; color nearest
RHS 11B. Peduncle: cylindrical; usually one per mature division and
56 per plant; glaucous and glabrous; upright; to about 92 cm tall,
and up to about 5 mm in diameter at base; average about 87 cm tall
and about 4.5 mm diameter at base; Peduncle color: Distally nearest
RHS 137B, proximally nearest RHS 137C heavily maculate with RHS
N186C with spots overlapping to nearly solid RHS N186C; Pedicel:
Glabrous; glaucous; cylindrical; to 29 mm long and 1.5 mm diameter;
attitude outwardly to slightly drooping; Pedicel color: Proximally
between RHS 148C and RHS 148B distally nearest RHS 83C; Fruit:
Tri-valved dehiscent capsule; oblong; apiculate apex and truncate
base; lightly furrowed; about 15 mm long and 4 mm diameter; color
as maturing nearest RHS 137A, at maturity between RHS 199A and RHS
N199A; Seed: Typically about 3 to 4 per capsule under natural
cultivation; endospermic; flattened-elliptic wing surrounding
embryo situated toward one end of ellipse; up to 6 mm long and 1.5
mm wide and 1 mm thick at embryo; color nearest RHS 202A; Disease
and pest tolerance and resistance: Hosta `Wild Imagination` has not
shown any resistance or susceptibility to pests and diseases except
that common to Hostas. Growth: The new 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.
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