US Plant Patent PP9467
Guz 215
Bromeliad plant named `Guz 215`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 2014. 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
- PP9467
- Filed
- December 27, 1994
- Granted
- March 5, 1996
- Expires
- December 27, 2014
- Assignee
- KENT S BROMELIAD NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- KENT JEFFREY C
Abstract
A bromeliad Guzmania having large floral bracts, the lower bracts being light green stained with cream, ruby red obverse and reverse gradually less creamy and ruby red to upper part of the inflorescence, after anthesis the bracts darkening to buff, the cream color being retained for as much as two months.
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 Guzmania plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the floral bracts of linear acute form about six inches by one and one-quarter inches decreasing in size to two and one quarter by three-quarter inches at the apex, the lower bracts being light green stained with cream and ruby red, the obverse and reverse, gradually less cream and ruby red to the upper two-thirds of the inflorescence, after anthesis the bracts gradually darken to buff, retaining the cream color for about two months.
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