USPP19319P2 - Pieris plant named ‘Passion’ - Google Patents
Pieris plant named ‘Passion’ Download PDFInfo
- Publication number
- USPP19319P2 USPP19319P2 US11/974,219 US97421907V USPP19319P2 US PP19319 P2 USPP19319 P2 US PP19319P2 US 97421907 V US97421907 V US 97421907V US PP19319 P2 USPP19319 P2 US PP19319P2
- Authority
- US
- United States
- Prior art keywords
- pieris
- plants
- new
- color
- passion
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Active
Links
- 241000255972 Pieris <butterfly> Species 0.000 title claims abstract description 27
- 241000196324 Embryophyta Species 0.000 description 31
- 241001316753 Pieris japonica Species 0.000 description 6
- 230000017260 vegetative to reproductive phase transition of meristem Effects 0.000 description 4
- 241000218922 Magnoliophyta Species 0.000 description 2
- 241000607479 Yersinia pestis Species 0.000 description 2
- 230000001154 acute effect Effects 0.000 description 2
- 230000001488 breeding effect Effects 0.000 description 2
- 239000003086 colorant Substances 0.000 description 2
- 230000010154 cross-pollination Effects 0.000 description 2
- 238000005520 cutting process Methods 0.000 description 2
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 description 2
- 244000184734 Pyrus japonica Species 0.000 description 1
- 230000011681 asexual reproduction Effects 0.000 description 1
- 238000013465 asexual reproduction Methods 0.000 description 1
- 238000005452 bending Methods 0.000 description 1
- 230000018109 developmental process Effects 0.000 description 1
- 201000010099 disease Diseases 0.000 description 1
- 208000037265 diseases, disorders, signs and symptoms Diseases 0.000 description 1
- 235000013399 edible fruits Nutrition 0.000 description 1
- 230000007613 environmental effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 239000003205 fragrance Substances 0.000 description 1
- 230000005078 fruit development Effects 0.000 description 1
- 238000005259 measurement Methods 0.000 description 1
- 210000000056 organ Anatomy 0.000 description 1
- 210000001672 ovary Anatomy 0.000 description 1
- 244000052769 pathogen Species 0.000 description 1
- 230000002085 persistent effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000033458 reproduction Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000001850 reproductive effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000008117 seed development Effects 0.000 description 1
- 239000002689 soil Substances 0.000 description 1
Images
Classifications
-
- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01H—NEW PLANTS OR NON-TRANSGENIC PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES
- A01H5/00—Angiosperms, i.e. flowering plants, characterised by their plant parts; Angiosperms characterised otherwise than by their botanic taxonomy
- A01H5/02—Flowers
-
- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01H—NEW PLANTS OR NON-TRANSGENIC PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES
- A01H6/00—Angiosperms, i.e. flowering plants, characterised by their botanic taxonomy
- A01H6/36—Ericaceae, e.g. azalea, cranberry or blueberry
Landscapes
- Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
- Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
- Physiology (AREA)
- Botany (AREA)
- Developmental Biology & Embryology (AREA)
- Environmental Sciences (AREA)
- Natural Medicines & Medicinal Plants (AREA)
- Breeding Of Plants And Reproduction By Means Of Culturing (AREA)
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Pieris plant named ‘Passion’, characterized by its upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching habit; large inflorescences with numerous red purple-colored flowers; developing inflorescences upright; and good garden performance.
Description
Botanical designation: Pieris japonica.
Cultivar denomination: ‘Passion’.
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Pieris, botanically known as Pieris japonica, and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Passion’.
The new Pieris is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Boskoop, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program is to create new Pieris varieties having upright inflorescences and attractive flower color.
The new Pieris originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in March, 1988, in Boskoop, The Netherlands, of an unnamed seedling selection of Pieris japonica, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with the Pieris japonica cultivar Valley Valentine, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Pieris was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Boskoop, The Netherlands in March 1999.
Asexual reproduction of the new Pieris by cuttings taken in a controlled environment in Boskoop, The Netherlands since 2000 has shown that the unique features of this new Pieris are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
The new Pieris has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature and/or light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype. The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Passion’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Passion’ as a new and distinct cultivar of Pieris:
-
- 1. Upright and outwardly spreading plant habit.
- 2. Freely branching habit.
- 3. Large inflorescences with numerous red purple-colored flowers.
- 4. Developing inflorescences upright.
- 5. Good garden performance.
Plants of the new Pieris differ from plants of the female parent selection primarily in flower color as plants of the female parent selection have white-colored flowers.
Plants of the new Pieris differ from plants of the male parent, the cultivar Valley Valentine, in the following characteristics:
-
- 1. Plants of the new Pieris develop roots more easily than plants of the cultivar Valley Valentine.
- 2. Plants of the new Pieris are more freely branching than plants of the cultivar Valley Valentine.
- 3. Inflorescences of plants of the new Pieris are more upright than inflorescences of plants of the cultivar Valley Valentine.
Plants of the new Pieris can be compared to the plants of the Pieris cultivar Rosalinda, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Boskoop, The Netherlands, plants of the new Pieris differed from plants of the cultivar Rosalinda in the following characteristics:
-
- 1. Developing leaves of plants of the new Pieris were light green in color whereas developing leaves of plants of the cultivar Rosalinda were brownish red in color.
- 2. Flowers of plants of the new Pieris were red purple in color whereas flowers of plants of the cultivar Rosalinda were light pink in color.
The accompanying colored photographs illustrate the overall appearance of the Pieris. These photographs show the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this describe the colors of the new Pieris.
The photograph on the first sheet comprises a side perspective view of a typical flowering plant of ‘Passion’ grown in a container.
The photograph at the top of the second sheet is a close-up view of a typical leaf of ‘Passion’.
The photograph at the bottom of the second sheet is a close-up view of typical flowering stems of ‘Passion’.
The aforementioned photographs and following observations and measurements describe plants grown in Boskoop, The Netherlands in 17-cm containers, in a glass-covered greenhouse during the winter and under commercial production conditions. During the production of the plants, day temperatures ranged from 7° C. to 16° C. and night temperatures ranged from 2° C. to 10° C. Plants used for the photographs and description were about four years old. In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, 2001 Edition, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.
- Botanical classification: Pieris japonica ‘Passion’.
- Parentage:
-
- Female, or seed, parent.—Unnamed seedling selection of Pieris japonica, not patented.
- Male, or pollen, parent.—Pieris japonica cultivar Valley Valentine, not patented.
-
- Propagation:
-
- Type.—By cuttings.
- Time to initiate roots, winter.—About ten weeks at temperatures of 18° C.
- Root description.—Fine, fibrous; light brown in color.
- Rooting habit.—Moderate branching; moderately dense.
-
- Plant description:
-
- Plant form and growth habit.—Perennial, evergreen; upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; broad inverted triangle. Moderately vigorous growth habit.
- Branching habit.—Freely branching habit; about six lateral branches develop per plant.
- Plant height, soil level to top of flowers.—About 31 cm.
- Plant diameter, area of spread.—About 21.2 cm.
- Lateral branch description.—Length: About 10.1 cm. Diameter: About 3 mm. Internode length: About 3 mm to 7 mm. Strength: Strong. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: 143A.
- Foliage description.—Arrangement: Alternate or whorled at terminals; simple. Length: About 5 cm. Width: About 1.7 cm. Shape: Oblanceolate. Apex: Acute. Base: Attenuate. Margin: Crenate. Venation pattern: Pinnate. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Color: Developing foliage, upper and lower surfaces: 144A. Fully expanded foliage, upper surface: Between 137A and 147A; venation, 143C. Fully expanded foliage, lower surface: Between 143A and 144A; venation, 144B. Petiole: Length: About 9 mm. Diameter: About 1 mm. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Color, upper and lower surfaces: 144B.
-
- Flower description:
-
- Flower arrangement and appearance.—Single urceolate flowers arranged on terminal paniculate racemes. Developing inflorescences initially upright then bending with the weight of developing flowers. Freely flowering habit; about 135 flowers develop per inflorescence during the flowering period.
- Natural flowering season.—Plants of the new Pieris typically flower in March in The Netherlands. Flowers not persistent.
- Flower longevity.—Individual flowers last about two weeks on the plant.
- Fragrance.—Sweet, pleasant.
- Inflorescence length.—About 7.5 cm.
- Inflorescence diameter.—About 10.4 cm.
- Flower diameter.—About 7 mm.
- Flower depth.—About 7 cm.
- Flower bud.—Length: About 6 mm. Diameter: About 4 mm. Shape: Ovoid. Color: 187C; towards the apex, 187A.
- Petals.—Arrangement: Single urceolate flower form; single whorl of five petals fused at the base. Length: About 7 mm. Width: About 2 mm. Shape: Roughly ovate with obtuse apex. Margin: Entire. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Color: When opening, upper surface: 185C; towards the base, 155A. When opening, lower surface: 59B; towards the base, 155C. Fully opened, upper surface: 185C to 185D; towards the base, 155A. Fully opened, lower surface: 60B; color becoming closer to 60C to 60D with development; towards the base, 155C.
- Sepals.—Arrangement: Five fused in a single whorl. Length: About 3 mm. Width: About 1 mm. Shape: Ovate. Apex: Acute. Base: Broadly cuneate. Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Color: Immature, upper and lower surfaces: 187A. Mature, lower surface: 145C to 145D.
- Peduncles.—Length: About 9.1 cm. Diameter: About 1.5 mm. Angle: Initially upright to about 80° from vertical. Strength: Moderately strong. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: 200C.
- Pedicels.—Length: About 4.5 mm. Diameter: Less than 1 mm. Angle: About 50° from vertical. Strength: Moderately strong. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: 183A to 183B.
- Reproductive organs.—Androecium: Quantity per flower: About ten. Anther shape: Roughly oval. Anther length: About 1 mm. Anther color: 200A. Pollen amount: Scarce. Pollen color: Close to N167C. Gynoecium: Quantity of pistils per flower: Typically one. Pistil length: About 5 mm. Style length: About 4.5 mm. Style color: 145D. Stigma shape: Narrowly club-shaped. Stigma diameter: Less than 1 mm. Stigma color: Close to 144B. Ovary color: 143A.
- Seed/fruit.—Seed and fruit development have not been observed.
-
- Garden performance: Plants of the new Pieris have been observed to have good garden performance and to be tolerant to rain and wind and temperatures from about −15° C. to about 33° C.
- Disease/pest resistance: Plants have not been observed to be resistant to pathogens and pests common to Pieris.
Claims (1)
1. A new and distinct cultivar of Pieris plant named ‘Passion’ as illustrated and described.
Priority Applications (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
---|---|---|---|
US11/974,219 USPP19319P2 (en) | 2007-10-11 | 2007-10-11 | Pieris plant named ‘Passion’ |
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
---|---|---|---|
US11/974,219 USPP19319P2 (en) | 2007-10-11 | 2007-10-11 | Pieris plant named ‘Passion’ |
Publications (1)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
---|---|
USPP19319P2 true USPP19319P2 (en) | 2008-10-14 |
Family
ID=39828502
Family Applications (1)
Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
---|---|---|---|
US11/974,219 Active USPP19319P2 (en) | 2007-10-11 | 2007-10-11 | Pieris plant named ‘Passion’ |
Country Status (1)
Country | Link |
---|---|
US (1) | USPP19319P2 (en) |
-
2007
- 2007-10-11 US US11/974,219 patent/USPP19319P2/en active Active
Non-Patent Citations (1)
Title |
---|
UPOV-ROM search for PBR 20052636 for cultivar Passion p. 1. * |
Similar Documents
Publication | Publication Date | Title |
---|---|---|
USPP21539P3 (en) | Lantana plant named ‘Chapel Hill Gold’ | |
USPP22108P2 (en) | Buddleja plant named ‘Podaras #16’ | |
USPP19935P2 (en) | Buddleja plant named ‘Butterfly Heaven’ | |
USPP19319P2 (en) | Pieris plant named ‘Passion’ | |
USPP20674P2 (en) | Astilbe plant named ‘Sugarberry’ | |
USPP19547P2 (en) | Hibiscus plant named ‘Antong Two’ | |
USPP17226P3 (en) | Campanula plant named ‘PKMT01’ | |
USPP18942P2 (en) | Eryngium plant named ‘Paradise Jackpot’ | |
USPP20931P2 (en) | Symphoricarpos plant named ‘Kolmcan’ | |
USPP29148P3 (en) | Pieris plant named ‘Sincere’ | |
USPP29130P3 (en) | Pieris plant named ‘Cabernet’ | |
USPP20384P2 (en) | Weigela plant named ‘Kolmagira’ | |
USPP26290P2 (en) | Pieris plant named ‘Shy’ | |
USPP19331P2 (en) | Pieris plant named ‘Ralto’ | |
USPP22738P2 (en) | Campanula plant named ‘Freya’ | |
USPP17498P2 (en) | Hypericum plant named ‘Verocla’ | |
USPP19461P3 (en) | Campanula plant named ‘PKMT02’ | |
USPP18675P2 (en) | New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Tamar White Improved’ | |
USPP17467P2 (en) | Persicaria plant named ‘Fat Domino’ | |
USPP18685P2 (en) | Hypericum plant named ‘Vericecla’ | |
USPP23045P2 (en) | Celosia plant named ‘Bkcelmg’ | |
USPP18343P2 (en) | Campanula plant named ‘Emerald’ | |
USPP18344P2 (en) | Bistorta plant named ‘Orange Field’ | |
USPP22870P2 (en) | Scoparia plant named ‘Suntutulaki’ | |
USPP18677P2 (en) | Hypericum plant named ‘Verpeacla’ |