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US Plant Patent PP6500

Klefitop

Carnation named Klefitop

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 5, 2006. 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
PP6500
Filed
December 5, 1986
Granted
December 27, 1988
Expires
December 5, 2006
Inventor
KLEMM SIEGFRIED

Abstract

A new variety of carnation cultivar distinguished by the venetian pink coloring of its medium sized blooms including some petals having a very few cardinal red stripes extending longitudinally from the serrated petal tips, which are borne on sturdy pedicels carried by long, strong peduncles and by its continuous and profuse production of flowers.

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 carnation cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its high productivity of venetian pink flowers having cardinal red stripes extending lengthwise on petals from the tips of petal ruffles, said flowers are borne singly on rigid, erect pedicels carried in spray formation on a sturdy and upright peduncle.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6500 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.