Can't really help you w/ID, but seems you've done a good job keeping it going.

I'm not so sure that flower shape is all that unique :-) Most of the 1000 or so species of Impatiens have 'snapdragon' shaped flowers with the flatter, more symmetrical flower shape pretty much limited to the highly hybridized 'annual' bedding plants most of us know as Impatiens - I. walleriana and hawkeri.

So while I can't identify your specific plant, I'd suspect you need to examine what species might produce a similar appearance and are commonly available. Except for the coloring, it looks quite similar to I. balfourii.

Thank you so much!!! Fusion is it for sure - the flower petals are so distinct in their arrangement. Now - how to find some seeds....

The Fushion series was hybridized by Ball Seed Company. They don't offer fushion seeds and plants anymore. I remember that Burpee Seeds sold a yellow African Impatiens for a couple years, and the year Burpee stopped offering the yellow African Impatiens was the year the fushion series appeared. I can't find any information about why Ball stopped selling them, but at the time downy mildew was killing a lot of Impatiens that were nursery stock, and perhaps the hybrid fushion Impatiens were more prone to getting mildew. They were all done with tissue cultures, which require a lot more work.

Anna, I remember those Fusion hybrids! I agree that they were quite unique and especially suited to baskets or containers where they can stand out in the crowd. I did find a mention, with Jay’s prompt, that Fusion was, indeed, one of the many types of impatiens susceptible to that terrible pandemic of downey mildew that swept the globe.

In the end, the only way to control the spread of the disease was to cull the susceptible types across the board. Impatiens almost disappeared for a time, causing huge consternation at the garden centers. I remember the tizzy it caused here in Garden Web, lol.

A word of warning. Do not even attempt to find plants or seeds as they will be phony. As Jay said, Fusion was never produced by seeds, anyway.

Good luck on your search for something you like just as much.

Very interesting! Thanks very much - some of you are so knowledgeable, on which the rest of us rely.

I used it a lot .....

Al

I grew the yellow African Impatiens named Blondie. Burpee offered plants and seeds for about 2 years and them mysteriously stopped carrying them. The year they stopped offering Blondie was the year the fusion series appeared. I didn't like the fusion Impatiens. I imagined they took my Blondie and hybridized it into a frankenflower. The fusion plants that I firstsaw were an off yellow color and not attractive. I never saw any pink or salmon colored types. Anyway, looking at them again years later I actually do like them now. The fused petals forming the hood make them resemble legume and orchid flowers. There are so many species of Impatiens globally it's amazing.

This African Impatiens is very similar to Blondie, but Blondie had a redder throat color. Impatiens auricoma

Impatiens madagascarensis

Impatiens rosulata in Tanzania.

Unknown Impatiens in Tanzania.

Impatiens platypetala

Impatiens bicaudata hybrid.

Impatiens putii

Caudiciform Impatiens

Tuberous Impatiens cinnabarina. The flower shape is close to fusion.

Impatiens namchabarwensis. Cameras don't capture the deep, true blue of the flowers.

Awesome! Thanks for the latest posts. I think I can now stop looking for these seeds/plants - as it was in vain. What a shame, they were so pretty.

I'm in an Impatiens group on another platform and someone there has preserved fushion Impatiens over the years. They may have promised them all away already, for all I know. It's not impossible for the fushion series to make a comeback. I just got this new info last night.