The invention relates to a variety of garden balsam (Impatiens balsamina L) named "Mendel", produced by autopolyploidy, followed by annually repeated individual selection of the resultant material, recommended to be cultivated in sunny places and sufficiently humid, humus-rich soils, for decorating the parks, gardens and for growing in pots It is an autopolyploid with 22n= 154; 24n=168 chromosomes, with the growth determined by a lax racem, the plant height being of 2535 cm The plants are bush-like, with branched out stems and jutting out nodes The leaves are dark green, thick, alternate or opposite, the flowers are vivid red, the floral formula % K 5-3 C10 A5 G (5), a plant having 70 -150 flowers The fruit is a seed-containing capsule, a plant having from 100 to 1,200 seeds; the plant blooms from July to October when there is hoar-frost and flower duration is 8 12 days from opening
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