US Plant Patent PP6329
St. Helena
Begonia plant named St. Helena
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 14, 2006. 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
- PP6329
- Filed
- November 14, 1986
- Granted
- October 11, 1988
- Expires
- November 14, 2006
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A begonia plant named St. Helena characterized by its large, double bright orange flowers; relatively large leaves with red tinged margins; early and long lasting flowering; strong stems and petioles, and compact growth, and by its ease of propagation from both stem and leaf cuttings.
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 plant named St. Helena, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large, double bright orange flowers; relatively large leaves with red tinged margins; early and long lasting flowering; strong stems and petioles, and compact growth, and by its ease of propagation from both stem and leaf cuttings.
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