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
- Assignee
- LONDE LAB PHYSIO VEGETALE
- 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.
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