Mandevilla plant with double flower called `Rita Marie Green`

Inactive Publication Date: 2001-02-27
GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL AS AGENT
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In addition, culturing of the `Rita Marie Green` variety auxillary bud tissue has also only produced plants with double flowers.

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The following is a detailed description of the invention based on plants grown at the inventors' nursery in Haines City, Fla., and at a nursery in Azusa, Calif. All four of the double flower forms disclosed herein were obtained by growing plants of `Rita Marie Green` in the same environmental conditions. Color descriptions are according to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart. Other terminology is used herein in accordance with ordinary dictionary significance or as commonly used by those of ordinary skill in the relevant art, unless otherwise noted.

THE PLANT

Foliage:

Type.--Evergreen.

Shape.--Elliptic (linear to oblong). Apex: Long to short acuminate tip. Base: Cordate.

Length.--Variable from about 9.5 cm to 15 cm.

Width.--Variable from about 4.6 cm to 8.2 cm.

Color.--Upper foliage: Green group R.H.S. 139A to green group R.H.S. 137A. Lower foliage: Yellow-green group R.H.S. 146B. Arrangement on stem: Opposite. Margins: Entire. Habit: The `Rita Marie Green` variety has a vigorous ...

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Abstract

A new and distinct Mandevilla variety characterized by red to red-purple double flowers having five parted outer corolla and inner five parted ring of petaloids.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to a new variety of Mandevilla plant, called `Rita Marie Green`. This plant is believed to be different from all previous known Mandevilla plants in that it possesses double flowers. `Rita Marie Green` is useful as a woody vine that produces decorative double blossoms. The double flowers of `Rita Marie Green` enhance its appearance and make it especially marketable, and therefore, useful. The botanical name for my new variety is Mandevilla.times.amabilis `Rita Marie Green`.The progenitor plant of `Rita Marie Green` was a Mandevilla of the variety `Alice du Pont`, which does not have double flowers. `Alice DuPont` is botanically known as Mandevilla.times.amabilis (an interspecific hybrid of M. splendens and an undefined parent), and therefore has the complete botanical name Mandevilla.times.amabilis `Alice DuPont`.The parent plant of the new variety was found in a group of `Alice du Pont` Mandevilla plants growing in a cultivat...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A01H5/02
CPCA01H5/02A01H6/088
Inventor GREEN, JAMES MITCHELLGREEN, JR., CECIL MICHAELGREEN, RITA MARIE
Owner GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL AS AGENT
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