US Plant Patent PP6370
Lonstiga
Carnation named `Lonstiga`
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
- PP6370
- Filed
- September 15, 1986
- Granted
- November 1, 1988
- Expires
- September 15, 2006
- Assignee
- LONDE LAB PHYSIO VEGETALE
- Inventor
- BARBERET NICOLE; DUCLOUX YVES
Abstract
A new variety of spray carnation having small, bright red blooms provided profusely at intermittent intervals of spring, midseason and fall appearing in clusters at the upper portion of a strong, erect stem, the flowers being distinguished by the strong cardinal red color of the petals which are lightly striated with longitudinally-extending white lines and the plant itself being distinguished by its very tall growth and vigorous, upright and rather rigid habit with moderately abundant foliage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of spray carnation, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its intermittent flowering habit with profuse production of flowers having a substantially solid cardinal red coloration, and having a rapid, vigorous and upright growth habit with a normal height of about 123 cm. at eight months with flower stems averaging about 69 cm. in length.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6370 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.