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US Plant Patent PP6711

Lonterey

Carnation named Lonterey

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 24, 2007. 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
PP6711
Filed
September 24, 1987
Granted
April 4, 1989
Expires
September 24, 2007

Abstract

A new carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by the light pink coloration of its medium sized, relatively dense and almost ball-shaped blooms, which are borne on long, straight, strong stems of a plant which blooms profusely and recurrently from spring through midseason and fall with a vigorous, upright growth habit and with moderately abundant foliage, the plant averaging about 112 cm. in height and thereby providing the flowers with extra long stems particularly suitable for the cut flower market.

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 and parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the uniform overall pink coloration of its medium sized, ball-shaped blooms which are carried on long, straight, strong and rigid stems, and by its vigorous growth habit with a moderately abundant production of foliage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6711 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.