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US Plant Patent PP8686

Florence

Alstroemeria named Florence

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 24, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record

Patent number
PP8686
Filed
March 24, 1993
Granted
April 12, 1994
Expires
March 24, 2013
Inventor
DE JONG CORNELIS T J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Alstroemeria plant named Florence, characterized by its predominanly dark pink flowers with outer petals having green tips and substantially dark pink color with some brown spotting occurring in highest concentration around the green tips; the two top inner petals are light pink at the base and dark pink at the apex and have a cream with yellow band and patterns of elongated brownish stripes; and, with the bottom inner petal being dark pink with elongated brownish stripes.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Alstroemeria plant named Florence, as described and illustrated, characterized by its predominantly dark pink flowers with outer petals having green tips and substantially dark pink color with some brown spotting occurring in highest concentration around the green tips; the two top inner petals are light pink at the base and dark pink at the apex and have a cream with yellow band and patterns of elongated brownish stripes; and, with the bottom inner petal being dark pink with elongated brownish stripes.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8686 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.