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US Plant Patent PP6368

Lonsato

Carnation named `Lonsato`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 15, 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
PP6368
Filed
September 15, 1986
Granted
November 1, 1988
Expires
September 15, 2006
Inventor
BARBERET NICOLE; DUCLOX YVES

Abstract

An original variety of standard carnation having medium sized blooms of a fiery red coloration produced profusely at recurrent intervals of spring, midseason and fall, the flowers being carried on long, strong and erect stems having rather abundant foliage, and the plant itself being distinguished by its tall growth and its vigorous, upright and very rigid growth habit with few branches.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. The new and distinctive variety of carnation, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its intermittent flowering habit and profuse production of flowers having a generally fiery orange appearance; and the plant having a rapid and vigorous upright growth habit with medium long flower stems.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6368 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.