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US Plant Patent PP6287

Lonviatex

Carnation variety `Lonviatex`

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
PP6287
Filed
July 29, 1986
Granted
September 13, 1988
Expires
July 29, 2006
Inventor
BARBARET NICOLE; DUCLOUX YVES

Abstract

A new variety of standard carnations having blossoms of medium size and a generally purple color which are borne singly on strong stems of medium length, and the blooms being produced profusely during the recurrent blooming habit of the plant; the plant itself being a fairly tall bush having a height of about one meter with moderately abundant foliage and a vigorous, upright and rather rigid growth habit.

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

We claim: 1. A new and distinctive carnation cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the relatively light shading of the purple coloring in the body of the petal and the petal margins as compared to the parent plant of which the present plant is a natural mutation.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6287 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.