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US Plant Patent PP10812

Ariel

Aster plant named `Ariel`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 8, 2016. 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
PP10812
Filed
August 8, 1996
Granted
March 2, 1999
Expires
August 8, 2016
Inventor
GLICENSTEIN LEON

Abstract

An Aster plant named `Ariel` particulary characterized by its cupped capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; lavender-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 32 to 38 mm when fully opened; well branched flower stems; many capitula per inflorescence on short peduncles; flowers hold color well as they age; plant height of 22 to 25 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators; natural season flower date of August 13 to September 3 when planting rooted cuttings on June 17 to 18 in Salinas, Calif.; and rounded plant habit.

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

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Aster plant named `Ariel`, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10812 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.