US Plant Patent PP7179
Lonpilok
Carnation plant named Lonpilok
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 24, 2009. 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
- PP7179
- Filed
- February 24, 1989
- Granted
- March 6, 1990
- Expires
- February 24, 2009
Abstract
A new and distinct carnation cultivar of the standard type particularly distinguished by its profuse production of medium sized blooms having a generally white coloration but characterized by the petals having short, dark red marginal streaks which provide the blooms with an unusual, randomly spaced spots scattered over the face of each fully opened bloom, each bloom being borne singly on a relatively long, flowering stem and the plant having a recurrent blooming habit with moderately abundant foliage on strong, upright stems reaching a height of about 125 cm., at eight months of growth.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinctive carnation cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its blooms having pure white petals with randomly spaced medium red marginal marks.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7179 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.