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US Plant Patent PP4600

Pink Triumph

Alstroemeria named Pink Triumph

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 23, 1999. 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
PP4600
Filed
April 23, 1979
Granted
October 7, 1980
Expires
April 23, 1999
Inventor
VAN STAAVEREN M C

Abstract

A new alstroemeria cultivar characterized by the delicate pink and contrasting yellow coloration of its blossoms which have large outer petals of an overall pink color and smaller inner petals having a pink base color overlaid with yellow and lengthwise-extending streaks bearing rows of short, brown, pencil-stripe spots. This cultivar is also distinguished by its profuse production of flowers in a more-or-less continuous manner, fewer leaves than normal and improved autumn and winter flowering production.

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 alstroemeria cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the distinctive overall red-pink coloring of the outer petals of its flowers and the sharply contrasting deep yellow coloring of its nectar-bearing inner petals, its abundant and substantially continuous production of flowers during each blooming season, and the long lasting quality of the individual blooms.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4600 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.