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US Plant Patent PP6234

Rudolph

Cactaceae plant named Rudolph

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 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
PP6234
Filed
April 14, 1986
Granted
July 26, 1988
Expires
April 14, 2006
Inventor
HIGAKI HARRY

Abstract

A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family obtained through cross-pollination of Schlumbergera truncata "Christmas Charm" and Schlumbergera truncata "Maria", distinguished from its parents and other known related varieties by a growth habit which combines a "reddish" colored bloom, a more vigorous growth rate than both parents, breaking propensity comparable to its paternal parent and better than its maternal parent, vigorous free budding and free flowering comparable to its paternal parent and better than its maternal parent, an upright and dense appearance and considerable resistance to nutrient deficiencies and fungus type diseases.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. The new and distinct hybrid plant variety of the Cactaceae family substantially as herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6234 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.