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US Plant Patent PP6369

Longotom

Carnation variety `Longotom`

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
PP6369
Filed
July 29, 1986
Granted
November 1, 1988
Expires
July 29, 2006
Inventor
BARBERET NICOLE; DUCLOUX YVES

Abstract

A new standard carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by its very large blooms having a light purple coloration, borne on long, strong, straight stems and which have a recurrent blooming habit with profuse production in the spring, midseason and fall but having a tendency to give less blooms in the fall. This plant has a vigorous, upright growth habit reaching a height of about one hundred centimeters at eight months with moderately abundant foliage, the flower stem having an average length of about eighty-two centimeters.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct carnation cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the very large size of its flowers which are generally of a light Purple color with petals which are tinged at the inner body portion and outer end edges with a somewhat darker Mallow Purple color; the plant being further characterized by its recurrent and profuse production of flowers during its blooming seasons.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6369 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.