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US Plant Patent PP7525

Hildance

Carnation named Hildance

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 10, 2009. 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
PP7525
Filed
February 10, 1989
Granted
May 14, 1991
Expires
February 10, 2009

Abstract

A new spray carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its very short and bushy growth, its continuous and prolific production of very small flowers, and the very light pink or spiraea red color of the outer two-thirds of the flower petals with more than one-half of the inner third of the petal body covered by a dark violet color. This very striking color combination provides a very dainty and distinctive blossom, suitable to be worn as a buttonhole decoration, and the plant itself has a vigorous, upright and rapid growth habit with abundant foliage providing a rather dense plant body particularly suitable for pot plant culture.

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 pot carnation, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its very small flowers of a very light pink color particularly distinguished by the flower petals having a dark violet area near the base and the plant being of short height with abundant, rather dense production of foliage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7525 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.