US Plant Patent PP6474
Staronic
Alstroemeria variety `Staronic`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 9, 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
- PP6474
- Filed
- March 9, 1987
- Granted
- December 20, 1988
- Expires
- March 9, 2007
- Assignee
- STAAVEREN BV
- Inventor
- VAN ANDEL JACOB
Abstract
A new variety of Alstroemeria characterized by the generally light purple coloration of the outer petals of its very large blooms, each of which has a streak of darker purplish color extending from end-to-end along each side of its central groove and being occasionally marked with streaks of purplish color extending from the inner body portion to the petal margin; the inner petals being more narrow in form and being mainly of a yellow coloration, except for the petal tips, and being marked overall with short, deep purplish pencil stripes which spread longitudinally from the petal base to its tip. This plant is further distinguished by its vigorous, upright and strong growth habit, a very good winter production, and a more rapid growth habit, reaching a height of about 200 cm.
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 and the parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly distinguished by the large size and light purple coloring of its flowers, by its vigorous and rapid growth habit, and by its good winter production.
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