US Plant Patent PP7459
Hilstefa
Carnation named Hilstefa
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 23, 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
- PP7459
- Filed
- January 23, 1989
- Granted
- February 26, 1991
- Expires
- January 23, 2009
Abstract
A new spray carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its profuse production of rather small flowers having a dark pink coloration of the inside surface of the flower petals which is enlivened by white edges, the reverse side of the petals being white, the flowers being borne in a cluster at the upper end of a long, strong flower stem. The plant itself is a tall bush having a height of about 100 cm. with a rapid, vigorous and upright growth habit and abundant foliage.
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 spray carnation cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its relatively small flowers each having about thirty to thirty-four petals, the inner side of which have a dark pink coloration, the flowers being produced profusely on long, rigid and erect stems of a tall, strong plant having a vigorous and upright growth habit and abundant foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7459 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.