US Plant Patent PP6013
Cheers
Begonia plant named Cheers
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 10, 2005. 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
- PP6013
- Filed
- December 10, 1985
- Granted
- September 15, 1987
- Expires
- December 10, 2005
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A begonia plant named Cheers particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of rose-red flower color, strong and upright petioles which support flowers above foliage, double flower form, floriferous habit, fast growth with good branching, and by its adaptability to 10 to 15 cm. pots.
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 cultivar of begonia named Cheers, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its rose-red flower color, strong and upright petioles which support flowers above foliage, double flower form, floriferous habit, fast growth with good branching, and by its adaptability to 10 to 15 cm. pots.
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