New Guinea Impatiens named `BFP-467 Cherry Red`

#The present invention provides a new and distinctive Impatients plant, botanically known as New Guinea Impatients, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name `BFP-467 Cherry Red`.

#The new cultivar is the product of a planned breeding program. More specifically, the breeding program which resulted in the production of the new cultivar was carried out in a controlled environment during 1992 at Arroyo Grande, Calif., U.S.A. The female parent (i.e., the seed parent) was the `BFP-364 Deep Coral` cultivar (U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 338,162, filed Nov. 8, 1994) which exhibits dark coral flowers with variegated bronze foliage. The male parent (i.e., the pollen parent) was a plant designated BFP-307 (non-patented in the United States) which exhibits large red flowers and moderately dark green foliage. The parentage of the new cultivar can be summarized as follows:

#`BSP-364 Deep Coral`.times.BFP 307.

#The accompanying photograph of FIG. 1 shows as nearly true as it is reasonably possible to make the same in a color illustration of this character, a typical specimen of an overall plant of the new cultivar. Tyical flower and foliage characteristics are illustrated. The plant was grown in a greenhouse at West Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.

#The chart used in the identification of colors described herein is the R.H.S. Colour Chart of The Royal Horticultural Society, London, England. The color values were determined on Jan. 3, 1995. The readings were taken between 1:00 and 1:45 p.m. under 2,000 footcandles of light at West Chicago, Ill., U.S.A. The plants were produced from cuttings taken from stock plants and were grown undergreenhouse conditions comparable to those used in commercial practice while utilizing a soilless growth medium and maintaining temperatures of approximately 72.degree. F. during the day and approximately 65.degree. F. during the night.

#Propagation:

#Type cutting.--Terminal tip.