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US Plant Patent PP7413

Hiltiny

Carnation named Hiltiny

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
PP7413
Filed
February 10, 1989
Granted
January 1, 1991
Expires
February 10, 2009

Abstract

A new carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its relatively short plant height and its profuse production of very small, generally magnolia purple flowers having a ruby red heart and borne in clusters on strong, erect, but relatively short flowering stems emitted near the soil and reaching a height of about 20 cm., the plant itself having a height of about 20 to 25 cm. with abundant foliage and a shape particularly adapted to 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 carnation variety, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its short, bushy plant form and its small magnolia purple flowers, the petals of which each have a large ruby red heart at the midportion of the petal body and above the petal stem.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7413 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.