US Plant Patent PP17115

Balcanyel

Canna plant named ‘Balcanyel’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 12, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 9, 2025. This patent earned 3 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17115
Filed: September 9, 2005
Granted: September 26, 2006
Expires: September 12, 2025
Assignee: SMITTLE DOYLE
Inventor: SMITTLE DOYLE

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Canna×generalis plant named ‘Balcanyel’, characterized by its dwarf habit, flowers having bright yellow petaloid staminodia with sparsely scattered red stippling, and dark green slightly glaucous mature foliage.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Canna×generalis plant named ‘Balcanyel’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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