US Plant Patent PP6661
Zelblanca
Alstroemeria named Zelblanca
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 24, 2007. 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
- PP6661
- Filed
- September 24, 1987
- Granted
- March 14, 1989
- Expires
- September 24, 2007
Abstract
A new and distinct Alstroemeria cultivar particularly distinguished by the substantially overall white color of the outer petals which surround heavily striped inner petals, the upper pair of which have an almost overall coloring of yellow and being accented by dark brown, longitudinally-extending pencil stripes arising from a dark brown base and the lower one of which is substantially white but also bears the longitudinally-extending brown stripes. This new plant is further distinguished by its continued and profuse year around blooming habit, the very large size of its generally white flowers, its vigorous, upright growth habit, and by the excellent lasting quality of its blooms both on the plant and as cut flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinctive Alstroemeria cultivar and parts thereof substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the pure white coloration of the outer petals of its flowers and the end portions only of the upper pair of the inner petals, the principal body portion of the lower one of the inner petals having a distinctive yellow coloration and the upper ones of the inner petals being heavily marked with dark, longitudinally-extending pencil stripes; and by the very large size of the flowers and the vigorous, upright and tall growth habit of the plant.
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