US Plant Patent PP6162
Mei-Bao
Carnation named Mei-Bao
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 20, 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
- PP6162
- Filed
- March 20, 1986
- Granted
- April 26, 1988
- Expires
- March 20, 2006
- Inventor
- NOBBIO GIACOMO
Abstract
A new variety of carnation of the closed calyx or non-splitting type, characterized by a vigorous growth and precocious blooming habit of very large flowers having dark red and violet coloration of its petals which are bordered by white margins.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of carnation plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its high productivity of very large flowers borne singly on rigid generally upright pedicels on a sturdy, upright relatively short peduncle, the flowers being characterized by having dark red and violet coloration of its petals which are bordered by a white margin.
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