US Plant Patent PP6271
Londibis
Carnation variety `Londibis`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 29, 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
- PP6271
- Filed
- July 29, 1986
- Granted
- September 6, 1988
- Expires
- July 29, 2006
- Assignee
- LONDE LAB PHYSIO VEGETALE
- Inventor
- BARBERET NICOLE; DUCLOUX YVES
Abstract
A hybrid carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its medium sized blooms having white petals which are marginally streaked with a dark red color providing an overall and distinctive red and white appearance, the blooms being carried singly on strong, upright stems of a medium length; the plant having a vigorous, upright and rather rigid growth habit with moderately abundant foliage, an average height of about eight-six centimeters at eight months and with a recurrent and profuse production of blooms.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinct carnation cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the flower petals being overall white and streaked with dark red at the outer end margins, the flowers being of medium size and produced profusely during the recurrent blooming periods of the plant, the plant itself being of medium height and the flower stem being long and of good strength.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6271 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.