Double flowering variegated impatiens "Orange Delite"

Abstract

An impatiens plant which is a derivative of the variety known as "Duet" found as a sport in a planting of the variety "Dapper Dan" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,130) where the double deep red flowers are contrasted with foliage which is the usual green of the impatiens leaves, having a variegated border in which the leaf variegation pattern is not uniform in at least two mesophyll layers of leaf tissue rendering the appearance as being layered, the color being of yellowish white and as a border of varying widths. The leaves appear to be substantially the same shape as the variety "Dapper Dan". The overall color of the flowers is noticeable as being substantially more orange than that variety, when the flowers are compared with those of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,130.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of impatiens plant, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the orange color of the flowers with the foliage having borders of leaves of yellowish white coloration which provide for variegation, the borders being of relatively varying widths from leaf to leaf, the primary distinction residing in the orange coloration as heretofore set forth in contrast to the much more red impatiens "Duet".