plant named ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’

Latin name of the genus and species:

Cultivar denomination: ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’.

The newcultivar is a product of a whole plant mutation discovered by the inventor at a nursery in Naples Florida. The discovery of this new cultivar took place in June of 2022. The parent variety is‘Ruby Parrot’ (not patented).

Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar was performed by tissue culture in January of 2023 at a nursery in De Lier, The Netherlands, and has shown that the unique features of this cultivar are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.

The cultivar ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, day length, and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype.

The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’ These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’ as a new and distinctcultivar:

Plants of the new cultivar ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’ are similar to plants of the parent, in most horticultural characteristics, however, plants of the new cultivar ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’ differ in the following:

Plants of the new cultivar ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’ can be compared to the unpatented commercial cultivar‘Ladi Di Variegated’. These cultivars are similar in most horticultural characteristics, however ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’ differs in the following:

The photographs were taken using conventional techniques and although colors may appear different from actual colors due to light reflectance it is as accurate as possible by conventional photographic techniques.

In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart 1996, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used. The following observations and measurements describe ‘RUBY PARROT IMPROVED’ plants grown in a shade house in Key Largo, Florida. The growing temperature ranged from approximately 15° C. to 35° C. during the day and from approximately 15° C. to 20° C. during the night. General light conditions are bright, normal sunlight. Measurements and numerical values represent averages of typical plant types.