US Plant Patent PP7411
Zelrosa
Alstroemeria named Zelrosa
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 14, 2009. 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
- PP7411
- Filed
- June 14, 1989
- Granted
- January 1, 1991
- Expires
- June 14, 2009
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Alstroemeria plant particularly distinguished by its continuous and profuse production of very large flowers having a rose bengal coloration, in general, highlighted by the white central portion of the inner petals of each of the flowers comprising the bloom, the umbel cluster of each bloom having three to seven flowers of relatively large size each carried on a strong upright stem of a length between 6 and 9 cm. depending upon season. The height of the plant varies with the season, between 60 and 150 cm., with each blooming cane varying in length between those heights thereby simplifying harvesting for cut flowers. BACKGROUND OF THE NEW PLANT My new Alstroemeria cultivar originating as a seedling of a hybrid developed by me by crossing unknown varieties selected from miscellaneous plants comprising my collection of Alstroemeria maintained by me at my greenhouse in DeKwakel, Holland and the present plant was selected by me from the several seedlings of the said hybrid because of the very large size of its flowers and a coloration which I consider to have good commerical merit. This selected seedling was propagated by me from roots and such propagation was carried on through several successive generations at DeKwakel which demonstrated that the novel characteristics of this variety would hold true from generation to generation and its homogeneity could thereby be assured for propagation on a commercial scale. Commercial propagation of this new variety is done under my direction at DeKwakel, Holland and the new plant is also being grown in greenhouse at Aalsmeer, whereby its character can be independently judged.
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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the generally Neyron Rose coloration of its very large blooms and distinguished in particular by the white coloration of a major body portion of the upper substantially parallel inside petals of the flowers.
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