US Plant Patent PP5432
Lontocia
Carnation named Lontocia
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 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
- PP5432
- Filed
- July 11, 1983
- Granted
- April 9, 1985
- Expires
- July 11, 2003
- Assignee
- LONDE LAB PHYSIO VEGETALE
- Inventor
- BARBERET NICOLE; DUCLOUX YVES
Abstract
A new variety of carnation particularly distinguished by its generally orange colored flowers, the petals of which are lightly streaked with a deep red, the flowers being of medium size and borne on erect and rigid but rather brittle stems of medium length. The blooms are produced abundantly during the blooming periods of Spring and Fall and this plant has a vigorous and upright growth habit with moderately abundant foliage and very few branches.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct carnation cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized in particular by the shrimp red color of its blooms which are streaked with union jack red; and by its vigorous and rigid growth habit, moderately abundant foliage and relatively few branches.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5432 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.