New Guinea Impatiens plant named `Dueripi`

#The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant, botanically known as Impatiens hawketi, and hereinafter referred to by the name `Dueripi`. The new variety is being marketed under the name Riviera Pink.

#The new variety is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the inventor in Rheinberg, Germany. The objective of the breeding program is to develop New Guinea Impatiens that are freely branching; compact; early flowering; and that have desirable flower and leaf colors.

#The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the inventor of the variety Papete (disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,457) as the male, or pollen, parent with the variety Timor (disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,144) as the female, or seed, parent.

#The accompanying colored photograph illustrates the overall appearance of the new variety, showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type. The photograph comprises a side perspective view of a typical plant of `Dueripi` grown in a 12-cm container. Flower and foliage colors may appear different from the actual colors due to light reflectance.

#Plants of `Dueripi` have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, daylength and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype. The following observations and measurements describe plants grown in 12-cm containers during the spring in Rheinberg, Germany, under commercial practice in a glass-covered greenhouse with day and night temperatures about 18.degree. C. and light levels about 45 thousand lux.

#In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.

#Botanical classification: Impatiens hawkeri `Dueripi`.