The invention relates to a variety of garden balsam (Impatiens balsamina L) named "Ana" obtained by autopolyploidy, followed by yearly repeated individual selection of the resultant material, recommended to be cultivated on sunny lands and in humus rich soils with a satisfactory humidity, for decorating parks or gardens and for growing in pots It is an autopolyploid with 22n=154; 24n=168 chromosomes The stem is knotty, ramificated, dark-green, with growth determined by a lax, ramificated raceme, having bush appearance The leaves are elliptically lanceolate, dark-green and thick The flowers are brick-red, hermaphrodite, zygomorphe and their floral formula is %K5-3C10A5G(5), one plant having 7090 flowers They blossom from June until hoar-frost time, and the flower duration is 69 days from its opening The fruit is a capsule with 024 seeds, one plant having 6001,200 seeds Their germinative power reaches 78%
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