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US Plant Patent PP7412

Hiltopper

Carnation named Hiltopper

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
PP7412
Filed
February 10, 1989
Granted
January 1, 1991
Expires
February 10, 2009

Abstract

A new spray carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its continuous blooming habit and profuse production of relatively small flowers having an overall orange coloration and being borne on erect, rigid peduncles emitted alternately from a strong, upright flowering stem having a length of about 60 cm. from a plant having a strong, vigorous, upright growth habit with 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 variety and the parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of relatively small, generally orange flowers carried on a long flowering stem of a tall plant having a strong and vigorous growth habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7412 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.