Hosta Cultivar Wind Beneath My Wings Hybridization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing Hosta cultivars lack a combination of distinct traits such as large, rounded-mound growth habit, lanceolate foliage with undulate margins, and tightly-compact pale lavender flowers on arching scapes, which are not found in currently registered or known cultivars.
Innovation Solution
A new Hosta cultivar, 'Wind beneath My Wings', is developed through hybridization between 'Neptune' and 'Queen of the Seas', exhibiting unique characteristics like dense, glaucous foliage and arching, bluish-colored scapes with pale lavender flowers, achieved through asexual propagation and tissue culture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing Hosta cultivars are used, then common Hosta traits are present, but the specific combination of large rounded-mound growth habit, lanceolate foliage with undulate margins, and tightly-compact pale lavender flowers on arching scapes is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple desirable traits from different Hosta parents into a single cultivar. The cross between 'Neptune' (providing glaucous blue foliage and wavy margins) and 'Queen of the Seas' (providing upright habit and broader foliage) produces offspring that merge these characteristics to create the unique rounded-mound growth habit, lanceolate undulate foliage, and arching scapes with tightly-compact flowers that distinguish 'Wind beneath My Wings' from existing cultivars
2Stability of the object's composition
If asexual propagation by division is used, then plants retain original traits, but propagation efficiency and speed are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces tissue culture as an intermediary propagation method between traditional division and direct field planting. This intermediary technique allows for rapid multiplication of the cultivar while maintaining genetic fidelity through in vitro propagation, thereby increasing productivity without sacrificing trait stability
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AI summary
A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Wind beneath My Wings’ with large rounded-mound habit of dense, lanceolate foliage of heavy glaucous bluish-colored above and whitish-blue below, retaining the glaucous covering until the end of summer. Long lanceolate leaves with sharply pointed apices and cordate base have undulate margins and the slightly impressed veins with moderate dimpling between the veins and sinuate margins. The plant has flowers in August with pale lavender outer tepals with the tepals inside distinctly striped in the middle of the tepals with a darker lavender and white on the margins. The new plant is attractive and useful in landscaping as a specimen, in mass, or as a containerized plant by itself or in combination with other plants.