US Plant Patent PP4743
Ballet
Begonia plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 25, 2000. 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
- PP4743
- Filed
- March 25, 1980
- Granted
- June 16, 1981
- Expires
- March 25, 2000
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C; VAN DEN BERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A begonia plant known by the cultivar name Ballet having clear yellow flowers and dark green foliage; double flowers, with the tepals in the center being relatively small and ruffled and the outside tepals being relatively large thereby giving the impression of a flower having a relatively small center enframed by the two outside tepals.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of begonia plant known by the cultivar name Ballet, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of clear yellow flowers and dark green foliage; double flowers, with the tepals in the center being smaller and more ruffled than those of the parent cultivar Baluga, and by its significantly larger outside tepals, giving the impression of a flower having a relatively small center enframed by the two outside tepals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4743 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.