USPP2630P - Barry - Google Patents

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May 24, 1966 D. BARRY, JR

BOUGAINVILLEA PLANT Filed July 22. 1964 Plant Pat. 2,630

-rnercial plants suitable for propagation and sale in the Plant Pat. 2,630 Patented May 24, 1966 United States Patent "ice New stems.l2 mm. in diameter; lightly tawny- 0 pubescent; glabrescent at maturity. Color-Biscay 'BOUGAINVILLEA PIjANT Green, Plate XVII, or suflused with Purple char- Davld g :1977 gm z Blvd" acteristic of the inflorescence.

Filed g gii gg g' 2 5 Older stems-Glabrous; longitudinally fissured; grooves /2 to 1 mm. wide and spaced 1 to 2 mm. 1 Claim. (Cl. Plt. 54)

apart. Color-Ep1dern11s Natal Brown, Plate XL with grooves Vinaceous Butt, Plate XL. Mature branches.C0rky. Color-avellaneous to The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of bougainvillea plant which was discovered by me as an apparent mutation amongst a group of bougain- 0 w Plate villea plants of unknown parentage which were being SPl"s- Infrequent; 6-8 longgrown by me in my cultivated commercial nursery gardens LeaveSL located in Los Angeles, califomia Internodes.About 2 cm. in length, except at base Prior to my discovery aforementioned, I obtained from of branches; leaYes alternatethe Philippines a number of rooted cuttings of various Textlre-FYOII1 thll'l t0 subconaceous; appressed; unidentified varieties of bougainvillea plants of unknown puberulent when yolfngi glabrate at maturity parentage from which I hoped to develop a stock of comcePt on a near m Size.Lamma (excluding leaves at base of United States. These original cuttings were in very poor branche {Long from 2 to (average condition when the shipment reached me, as the cuttings 2O CPL); W1de frm to (average had dried out and lost their leaves, and the roots thereof Female-From to long; terete; glabre's were to all appearances quite dead. However, I succentceeded in re-rooting most of the cuttings and I planted f to ubcrdate base obtuse; apex them in one of the greenhouses on the premises of my acummate; margms entlrenursery gardens referred to above. All of the plants but Upper SW ace- Du1! malor Vems depressedone developed into typical bougainvillea plants having Color-near Chromlum Green, P1ate XXXH- the usual three floral bracts common to those varieties Lower surface; Dul lc1 rB1scaY Green Plate native to South America. The exceptional plant afore- Y Malor Vems ra1sed above Surfacfi mentioned surprisingly was found to have a double floral P' Clea? Dun f Q Plate Mlnor structure, with an unusual multiple number of bracts 3O Vems ev1dent and bemg Blce Gre6n Plate XVII- presenting a most distinctive and highly attractive appearance. Continued close observations of this outstanding plant and of progeny thereof asexually reproduced by me therefrom by means of rooted cuttings which I also planted in my gardens referred to in the foregoing, convinced me that they represent a new and distinct variety unlike any other formerly known to me or previously reported or described in published literature, as evidenced by the following unique combination of features which are outstanding in my new mutation:

(1) A very double floral structure having multiple bracts usually ranging from 9 to 12 or more in number;

Inflorescence Position and abundance: Inflorescences 2 to 5 (average 4) 35 per flowering branch; subterminal on branch; axillary.

Habit: Each inflorescence branch indeterminate, paniculately compound and branching racemo'se; bracts closely clustered.

Axes: Inflorescence axes terete; from /2 to 1 mm. in diameter. ColorBordeaux, Plate XII, suffused with green where shaded on plant.

Bracts:

Arrangement.Mostly alternate; occasionally alterand natel clustered at ends of inflorescence branch- (2) Adistinctive and attractive bract color which may lets ygiving the entire inflorescence a tufted be generally described as a bright rose color correspondpearance.

Number.N0rmally fro-m 9 to 12 or more.

Habit.Sessile, but with one or more strongly decurrent bracts on each inflorescence branchlet; usually the decurrent bract is at the base of each branchlet.

Size.Larger bracts up to 3.8 cm. long and 2.9 cm. wide; bracts grade in size down to minute, since cessation of growth of inflorescence branchlets oc curs prior to maturation of all bracts.

' Shape.From ovate to subelliptical; base (if not decurrent) acute or obtuse; apex usually accuminate some acute).

Texture.-Chartaceous; veins evident; only midvein 6 raised above surface prominently.

Vesture.Finely puberulent when young; pubescent along veins at maturity.

C0l0r.-Young bracts Spinel Red, Plate XXVI,

changing to Rosolane Purple, Plate XXVI at maturity; both colors are present in all inflorescences,

because cessation of growth occurs before all bracts are matured; immature bracts are somewhat suffused with yellow-green because of their denser vesture; midvein and portions of lateral veins Absinthe Green, Plate XXXI.

Growth: Flowers: Absent; instead of producing a limited number Habit.-Upright-spreading; semi-scandent. of bracts, each capable of bearing an epibracteate ing to Spinel Red when young, but changing to Rosolane Purple at maturity, with the immature bracts being somewhat sutfused with yellow-green.

Asexual reproduction of my new bougainvillea variety 50 by own-rooted cuttings, as grown by me in my nursery gardens in Los Angeles, California, shows that the aforementioned characteristics and distinctions come true and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagations.

The accompanying drawing shows typical specimens of the floral stems, foliage and inflorescences of my new variety as depicted in color as nearly true as it is reasonably possible to make the same in a color illustration of this character.

The following is a detailed description of my new bougainvillea variety, with color terminology in accordance with Ridgways Color Standards and Nomenclature, except where general color terms of ordinary dictionary significance are obvious:

Parentage: A mutation of unkonwn parentage. Location where grown and observed: Los Angeles, California.

Plant flower, as is typical for regular bouganvillea varieties, this plant now bears unlimited numbers of sterile bracts.

I claim:

A new and distinct variety of bougainvillea plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a very double floral structure having multiple bracts usually ranging from 9 to 12 or more in number, and a distinctive and attractive bract color which may be generally described as a bright rose color corresponding to Spinel Red when young, but changing to Rosolane Purple at maturity, with the immature bracts being somewhat suffused with yellow-green.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS P.P. 2,514 5/1965 Green Plants 54 ABRAHAM G. STONE, Primary Examiner.

0 T. GRAHAM CRAVER, Examiner.

R. E. BAGWILL, Assistant Examiner.

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