US Plant Patent PP5435
Lontarion
Carnation named Lontarion
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 11, 2003. 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
- PP5435
- Filed
- August 11, 1983
- Granted
- April 9, 1985
- Expires
- August 11, 2003
- Assignee
- LONDE LAB PHYSIO VEGETALE
- Inventor
- BARATTA NICOLETTA; NOBBIO GIACOMO
Abstract
A new carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its bright red flowers of medium size having many very frilled petals which lend a very distinctive character to the ball shape of the bloom which is carried on strong, rigid stems which provide particular advantage when the blooms are employed for decorative uses either alone or in arrangements with other flowers in vases. This plant has a very vigorous and upright growth habit reaching a height of about 110 cm. providing very strong flower stems when cut at the tenth node.
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 carnation cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its abundant production of bright, medium sized blooms, its regularly recurrent blooming habit, and its resistance to Fusarium oxysporum.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5435 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.