US Plant Patent PP5746
Karita
Begonia plant named Karita
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 20, 2004. 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
- PP5746
- Filed
- September 20, 1984
- Granted
- May 13, 1986
- Expires
- September 20, 2004
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- ROHDE HANS J
Abstract
A begonia plant named Karita characterized by its medium pink double sterile flowers up to 5 cm. in diameter, medium size dark green crisp foliage, vigorous upright, self-branching mounded plant, year round flowering, and the ability to maintain good quality flowers for long periods of time.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A begonia plant named Karita, as described and illustrated, having medium pink double sterile flowers up to 5 cm. in diameter; medium size dark green crisp foliage; vigorous upright, self-branching mounded plant; year round flowering, and the ability to maintain good quality flowers for long periods of time.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5746 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.