US Plant Patent PP9896
Roblibsca
Canna plant named `Roblibsca`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 21, 2015. 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
- PP9896
- Filed
- December 21, 1995
- Granted
- May 20, 1997
- Expires
- December 21, 2015
- Inventor
- ROBERSON ROBERT J
Abstract
A new cultivar of Canna is provided. The dwarf height with overall compact growth characteristics, a multiplication rate of eight to twenty-five plants per growing season, an inflorescence with blooms of scarlet red accented by darker scarlet splashes, contrasting burgundy foliage and strong winter storage capability providing a cultivar well suited for garden or pot plant having no unusual susceptibility to the traditional Canna diseases and insects.
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 cultivar of Canna, substantially as described and illustrated herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its dwarf height, with overall compact growth characteristics, a multiplication rate of eight to twenty-five plants per growing season, an inflorescence with blooms of scarlet red accented by darker scarlet splashes, contrasting burgundy foliage, and strong winter storage capability providing a cultivar well suited as a garden or pot plant having no unusual susceptibility to the traditional Canna diseases and insects.
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