US Plant Patent PP7180
Carnation plant names Lonnisio
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
- PP7180
- Filed
- February 24, 1989
- Granted
- March 6, 1990
- Expires
- February 24, 2009
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and original variety of standard carnation particularly distinguished by its medium sized blooms the petals of which having a very light yellow body color bearing red striations which provide generally a flower of light color bearing a reddish heart due to the close gathering of the inner petals which render the flower with an attractive and pleasing appearance. This plant blooms profusely at recurrent intervals in the Spring, Midseason and Fall blooming seasons and the blooms are carried on strong, upright and rigid stems providing a cut flower length averaging about 78 cm. on a well-branched plant having a total height averaging about 130 cm. at eight months of growth and bearing a moderately abundant quantity of foliage.
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 variety substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by the yellow and red coloration of its medium sized blooms the petals of which have dark red striae on each side which show rather densely on the closely gathered inner petals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7180 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.