The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant botanically known as Impatiens walleriana and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Balbonisal’.
The new cultivar originated in a controlled breeding program in Rijsenhout, The Netherlands during November 2008. The objective of the breeding program was the development of Impatiens cultivars with fully double-type and large flowers, with a compact-mounded growth habit.
The new Impatiens cultivar is the result of cross-pollination. The female (seed) parent of the new cultivar is the proprietary Impatiens walleriana breeding selection uncoded, not patented, characterized by its semi-double type, medium rose-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, mounded growth habit. The male (pollen) parent of the new cultivar is the proprietary Impatiens walleriana breeding selection uncoded, not patented, characterized by its double-type, medium orange-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, mounded growth habit. The new cultivar was discovered and selected as an individual flowering plant within the progeny of the above stated cross-pollination during June 2009 in a controlled environment in Rijsenhout, The Netherlands.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal stem cuttings since June 2009 in Rijsenhout, The Netherlands; Arroyo, Grande, Calif.; and West Chicago, Ill. has demonstrated that the new cultivar reproduces true to type with all of the characteristics, as herein described, firmly fixed and retained through successive generations of such asexual propagation.