US Plant Patent PP5766
Mei-Fu
Carnation named Mei-Fu
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 16, 2004. 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
- PP5766
- Filed
- April 16, 1984
- Granted
- July 15, 1986
- Expires
- April 16, 2004
- Inventor
- NOBBIO GIACOMO
Abstract
A new carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its relatively small, double type, pink and white flowers, the petals of which are generally fan shaped and have a base coloration of several shades or tones of pink spreading outwardly from the base to a deeply serrated white margin, on the upper side, and having an homogeneous white coloration on the under side lightly tinged with the pink ground color of the upper side, the flowers being of symmetrical shape and of rather flat form borne on sturdy stems of medium thickness and very elastic.
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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its relatively small, double type flowers of symmetrical and flat shape, and by the several color tones on the upper surface of the flower petals which spread as on a fan, the petals also exhibiting an irregular corona pattern of color and a white reverse side which is overlaid by a faint pink coloration.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5766 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.