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US Plant Patent PP15764

Sunbelho

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Sunbelho’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 28, 2023. This patent earned 25 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15764, the photograph of Sunbelho printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15764, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP15764
Filed
August 28, 2003
Granted
May 17, 2005
Expires
September 22, 2023
Assignee
SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
Inventor
KANAYA TAKESHI; MURAKAMI YASUYUKI

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a new and distinct variety of Calibrachoa plant, having a semi-decumbent habit. The Calibrachoa plant has abundant branching particularly with respect to secondary branching, and a great profusion of blooms with the entire plant remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time. the flowers are single and very small with the white petals. the base color of the corolla throat is brilliant greenish yellow and the outside of the corolla tube is brilliant greenish yellow. The plant exhibits high resistance to rain, heat, drought and diseases such as powdery mildew.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Sunbelho’, substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15764 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.