![]() ![]() Vigorous plants of dense upright habit, producing clean, dark-green, lanceolate leaves Phlox ‘Opalescence’ differs from and all other Phlox known to the inventor in the following repeatedly observed traits in combination: ‘Swizzle’ has a shorter habit and more pink flowers that fade more to whiter petal faces. ‘Balkapowibi’ has a shorter habit and the flower petals are lighter pink with a darker red eye. ‘Bright Eyes’ has a taller habit with lighter green foliage and the flowers are more cupped and not as flat. ‘Uptown Girl’ has a similar habit with slightly lighter green foliage and flowers of slightly lighter pink. ‘Dodo Hanbury Forbes’ has a taller habit with flowers of deeper pink. The female parent, ‘Rosalinda’, has a taller habit and slightly deeper pink flowers with less obvious eye. 32,287, ‘Bright Eyes’ (not patented), ‘Balkapowibi’ U.S. The nearest comparison plants known to the inventor include: the female and male parents, ‘Uptown Girl’ U.S. Phlox ‘Opalescence’ is unique from all other Tall Phlox known to the inventor. The unique characteristics of the new plant have been found to be reproducible and stable in successive generations of asexually propagated and the resultant plants have been found to be identical to the original selection. ‘Opalescence’ was first asexually propagated by division in the fall of 2016 followed by shoot tip cuttings in the greenhouses at the same nursery in Zeeland, Mich. The new plant passed initial evaluation on the summer of 2016 and was assigned the breeder code 14-591-1 through the remaining evaluation process. between Phlox paniculata ‘Rosalinda’ (not patented) as the female or seed parent and Phlox paniculata ‘Dodo Hanbury Forbes’ (not patented) as the male or pollen parent. The new plant was hybridized by the inventor at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich. ![]() The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Tall Phlox plant known as Phlox ‘Opalescence’ and will be referred to hereafter by its cultivar name, ‘Opalescence’, or the “new plant”. No plants of Phlox ‘Opalescence’ have been sold in this country or anywhere in the world, nor has any disclosure of the new plant been made, more than one year prior to the filing date of this application, and such sale or disclosure within one year was either derived directly or indirectly from the inventor. 24, 2020 by Walters Gardens, Inc., who obtained the plant and all information relating thereto, from the inventor. The claimed plant was first sold to Ivy Acres, Inc. Subsequently, the new plant was advertised in the “Walters Gardens 20-21 Catalog” by Walters Gardens, Inc. The first non-enabling disclosure of the claimed plant, in the form of a photograph and brief description on a website operated by Walters Gardens, Inc. STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES UNDER 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6) Botanical classification: Phlox paniculata.
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