Poinsettia plant named V-14 hot pink

Abstract

A new poinsettia cultivar having the principal growth characteristics of the red variety named V-14 (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,384) and the pink variety named V-14 Pink (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,808), which is a sport of V-14, including the ability to produce numerous side shoots on its stems and to produce bracts with short petioles, but particularly distinguished by its bracts which have a unique and distinctive "hot pink" color as compared with those of the said V-14 Pink.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinctive poinsettia cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by the warm and deep pink coloration of its bracts which are tightly centered and present a very compact display.